{"id":657878,"date":"2026-01-21T12:04:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=657878"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:04:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:34:38","slug":"thermal-power-share-to-dip-amid-slower-demand-growth-rising-renewables-crisil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/thermal-power-share-to-dip-amid-slower-demand-growth-rising-renewables-crisil\/","title":{"rendered":"Thermal power share to dip amid slower demand growth, rising renewables: Crisil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The share of fossil fuels in power generation is set to drop below 70% next fiscal owing to slower growth in power demand and a surge in renewable energy (RE) generation, ratings agency Crisil said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said the share of thermal power\u2014coal, lignite, gas and diesel\u2014is expected to slip to 72% in 2025-26 from nearly 75% in the last fiscal. As a result, plant load factors (PLFs) of thermal power plants are likely to fall to 64-66% in the current and next fiscal from 69% in the last financial year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The share of fossil fuels in power generation is set to drop below 70% next fiscal owing to slower growth in power demand and a surge in renewable energy (RE) generation, ratings agency Crisil said on Monday. The agency said the share of thermal power\u2014coal, lignite, gas and diesel\u2014is expected to slip to 72% in 2025-26 from nearly 75% in the last fiscal. As a result, plant load factors (PLFs) of thermal power plants are likely to fall to 64-66% in the current and next fiscal from 69% in the last financial year.<\/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-657878","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\/657878","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=657878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}