{"id":652890,"date":"2025-11-18T08:27:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=652890"},"modified":"2025-11-18T08:52:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:22:33","slug":"excess-renewable-capacity-underutilised-power-minister-manohar-lal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/excess-renewable-capacity-underutilised-power-minister-manohar-lal\/","title":{"rendered":"Excess renewable capacity underutilised: Power Minister Manohar Lal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Power minister Manohar Lal noted that India is currently a power-surplus nation, but excess renewable energy capacity remains underutilised due to limited capacity tie-ups which brings the need of having energy storage systems. <\/p>\n<p>While addressing a meeting of the Consultative Committee of the Members of Parliament that focussed on pumped storage projects (PSPs), Lal emphasized that such storage systems play a key role by storing this surplus green power and meeting electricity demand during non-solar hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Power minister Manohar Lal noted that India is currently a power-surplus nation, but excess renewable energy capacity remains underutilised due to limited capacity tie-ups which brings the need of having energy storage systems. While addressing a meeting of the Consultative Committee of the Members of Parliament that focussed on pumped storage projects (PSPs), Lal emphasized that such storage systems play a key role by storing this surplus green power and meeting electricity demand during non-solar hours.<\/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-652890","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\/652890","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=652890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}