{"id":394616,"date":"2026-01-28T07:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/394616\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T07:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:47:09","slug":"indias-coal-fueled-power-falls-but-inflexibility-limits-renewables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/394616\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s coal-fueled power falls, but inflexibility limits renewables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/energy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Energy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Landmark 3% drop seen in 2025, but nation paid up to $75m for lost solar over 8 months<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/4\/0.jpeg\" alt=\"20260127 India Coal\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A 3% drop in coal-fired energy generation last year was primarily driven by a record increase in clean power generation, according to analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. (Nikkei montage\/Source photos by Getty Images\u00a0and Kosaku Mimura)<\/p>\n<p>CHARU BAHRI<\/p>\n<p>January 28, 2026 10:28 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">RAJASTHAN, India &#8212; Inflexible coal power plants are limiting India&#8217;s ability to tap its growing renewables capacity, even as coal-fired energy generation declined in 2025 for the first time in half a century except once during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Energy Landmark 3% drop seen in 2025, but nation paid up to $75m for lost solar over 8&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[148267,1397,11973,52254,148268,148269,32853,12570,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-394616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-coal-fueled","tag-environment","tag-falls","tag-indias","tag-inflexibility","tag-limits","tag-power","tag-renewables","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}