{"id":35622,"date":"2018-11-01T11:07:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T05:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35622"},"modified":"2018-11-01T11:07:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T05:37:35","slug":"use-coal-while-economical-says-cea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/use-coal-while-economical-says-cea\/","title":{"rendered":"Use coal while economical, says CEA:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-business\/use-coal-while-economical-says-cea\/article19513028.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use coal while economical, says CEA<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong> Context:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subharmanian said on Thursday, India should leverage its coal assets while it is still economical to do so before ramping up its renewable energy capacity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Introduction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0The country should still have coal as a major fuel and avoid getting distracted by the global debate on \u201ccarbon imperialism\u201d said chief economic advisor Arvind Subramanian.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The low tariffs seen in the renewable sector do not include several implicit costs that are, so far, being subsidized.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Subramanian suggested ramping up coal production dramatically in the short run and slowing down renewable energy capacity addition.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0Subramanian emphasized that coal can be slowed down and renewable energy ramped up, when social cost for the latter would change in its favour.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Key points:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0The burden of combating climate change should be consistent historically and equitably<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0Recently second volume Economic Survey noted last week that the transition to increasing role of renewable it the energy mix is likely to adversely affect conventional energy generation assets.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Coal would remain at the centre stage in India with its share in the energy mix not declining below 46% in 2047, as per the report titled \u2018Energizing India\u2019, jointly prepared by the Niti Aayog and the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0Country intends to generate at least 40% of its electricity from non-fossil sources by 2030.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0It aims to add 175 GW of renewable energy-based installed capacity by 2022.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0Total installed capacity in the country presently stands at about 350 GW.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0In FY 17, coal power plant generated more than 85% of the total electricity produced in the country.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use coal while economical, says CEA:\u00a0 Context: Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subharmanian said on Thursday, India should leverage its coal assets while it is still economical to do so before ramping up its renewable energy capacity. Introduction: \u00a0\u00a0The country should still have coal as a major fuel and avoid getting distracted by the global debate&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/use-coal-while-economical-says-cea\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Use coal while economical, says CEA:\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704845084},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}