{"id":25116,"date":"2020-02-13T19:50:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T15:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/?p=25116"},"modified":"2020-02-13T19:50:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T15:50:34","slug":"energy-production-and-ipps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/energy-production-and-ipps\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Production and IPPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><u>Editorial<\/u><\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>By M.K.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to press reports this week, Independent Power Producers, namely sugar millers, are seriously considering to shift from the utilisation of coal (which, together with bagasse, is presently the case) to other less polluting materials like wood chips (roseaux de bois) and solar energy. This is in view of the impact of coal on climate change and the country\u2019s commitment to the Kyoto Protocol. That\u2019s all very good and is a welcome initiative. However, until such time that these new projects are realised, the current contracts binding the CEB with the Independent Power Producers (IPPs) will apparently be renewed for a shorter periods than the earlier longer term contracts (typically for 20 years), on terms that have not been disclosed to the public at this stage\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>READ MORE IN OUR PRINT EDITION<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><em>Available at all newsagents<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><em>* Published in print edition on 14 February 2020<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editorial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":23902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Coal-fired-power-station.jpg?fit=1200%2C726&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8QzSF-6x6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}