and also touches upon the government’s policies The dominance of coal-based generation is due to towards decommissioning/retirement of coal- the fact that it is the cheapest source of electricity based plants. [...] Total installed capacity by size of units Incidentally, more than 100 GW of coal-based To retire or not to retire capacity has come up in the last 15 years and much of this credit goes to the electricity exchanges If coal-based plants are to be retired, it will have where spot prices of power increased manifold adverse effects on the coal mining sector in terms of in 2007. [...] 2030 of the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) All the studies, however, caution that due care must which stated that to meet the demand for power in be taken to decide on the plants to retire since any 2030, a capacity of 777 GW would be required and miscalculation may lead to outages in some regions. [...] The generators would obviously like to needs to be pointed out is that in the absence of land keep their plants running beyond 25 years since use policies, not only in India but in several other otherwise, it would lead to a massive decline in the countries as well, there is no restoration carried out size of the company apart from leading to a loss of in the erstwhile mines and they are left as i. [...] This led to the scheme of pooling of the reason is also due to the fact that the generators power (not yet operational though) from coal-based do not have sufficient funds to carry out the same.
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