{"id":657697,"date":"2026-01-16T12:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=657697"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:39:22","slug":"power-sector-has-investment-potential-of-over-rs-40-lakh-crore-khattar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-sector-has-investment-potential-of-over-rs-40-lakh-crore-khattar\/","title":{"rendered":"Power sector has investment potential of over Rs 40 lakh crore: Khattar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India has an investment potential of over \u20b940 lakh crore in the power sector, Union minister Manohar Lal Khattar said on Thursday at a curtain-raiser for a global conference on the power sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe estimate an investment potential of over $345.97 billion in electricity generation and $68.22 billion in transmission and distribution. The energy storage sector alone offers an opportunity of $35.21 billion,\u201d the power minister said while formally announcing the Bharat Electricity Summit 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India has an investment potential of over \u20b940 lakh crore in the power sector, Union minister Manohar Lal Khattar said on Thursday at a curtain-raiser for a global conference on the power sector. \u201cWe estimate an investment potential of over $345.97 billion in electricity generation and $68.22 billion in transmission and distribution. The energy storage sector alone offers an opportunity of $35.21 billion,\u201d the power minister said while formally announcing the Bharat Electricity Summit 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657697","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}