{"id":658770,"date":"2026-02-21T11:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658770"},"modified":"2026-02-21T11:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:18:15","slug":"tamil-nadu-interim-budget-signals-thrust-on-environmental-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tamil-nadu-interim-budget-signals-thrust-on-environmental-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Nadu interim budget signals thrust on environmental protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The interim Budget stated that a \u2018New Integrated Renewable Energy Policy&#8217; aimed at expanding the state&#8217;s clean energy capacity would be announced soon. Finance minister Thangam Thennarasu said the policy would provide a structured roadmap to scale up renewable energy generation and meet the state&#8217;s rising power demand through sustainable sources. The Budget earmarked 18,091 crore for the energy department for 2026 -27.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on an assessment that Tamil Nadu&#8217;s power demand will double in the coming years, new plans are being formulated to generate 100 billion units of renewable green energy,&#8221; Thennarasu said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The interim Budget stated that a \u2018New Integrated Renewable Energy Policy&#8217; aimed at expanding the state&#8217;s clean energy capacity would be announced soon. Finance minister Thangam Thennarasu said the policy would provide a structured roadmap to scale up renewable energy generation and meet the state&#8217;s rising power demand through sustainable sources. The Budget earmarked 18,091 crore for the energy department for 2026 -27. &#8220;Based on an assessment that Tamil Nadu&#8217;s power demand will double in the coming years, new plans are being formulated to generate 100 billion units of renewable green energy,&#8221; Thennarasu said.<\/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-658770","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\/658770","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=658770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}