{"id":652422,"date":"2025-11-13T08:47:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T03:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=652422"},"modified":"2025-11-13T09:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T04:00:09","slug":"indias-power-grid-struggles-to-absorb-soaring-solar-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-power-grid-struggles-to-absorb-soaring-solar-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s power grid struggles to absorb soaring solar supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s power grid is struggling to absorb a rapid surge in solar installations, leading to increased curtailment that threatens the pace of renewable expansion and underscores the urgent need for large-scale energy storage. <\/p>\n<p>The curtailment rate for solar generation in October rose to about 12%, the highest since May when Grid Controller of India Ltd. began publishing such data. On some days, as much as 40% of solar power output was denied access to the national grid. Curtailment measures the share of electricity generated but not delivered to consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s power grid is struggling to absorb a rapid surge in solar installations, leading to increased curtailment that threatens the pace of renewable expansion and underscores the urgent need for large-scale energy storage. The curtailment rate for solar generation in October rose to about 12%, the highest since May when Grid Controller of India Ltd. began publishing such data. On some days, as much as 40% of solar power output was denied access to the national grid. Curtailment measures the share of electricity generated but not delivered to consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}