{"id":259266,"date":"2019-02-16T06:04:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T06:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=259266"},"modified":"2019-02-16T06:04:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T06:04:10","slug":"wind-power-auction-sees-one-year-high-tariff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wind-power-auction-sees-one-year-high-tariff\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind power auction sees one-year high tariff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sixth round of wind power auction by the state-run Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) that concluded on Thursday discovered a tariff of Rs 2.82\/unit, the highest since February last year when the price bottomed out at Rs 2.44\/unit. The results of the latest round of bidding have raised the fear that the \u201chigh tariffs\u201d, which the state-run discoms could object to, might force the government to cancel the bids.<\/p>\n<p>A similar rise in solar tariffs had resulted in auction process being put in abeyance. While solar tariffs reached the lowest level of `2.44\/unit in 2017, it has since gone up to `2.71 in July 2018, leading to cancellation of the bids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sixth round of wind power auction by the state-run Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) that concluded on Thursday discovered a tariff of Rs 2.82\/unit, the highest since February last year when the price bottomed out at Rs 2.44\/unit. The results of the latest round of bidding have raised the fear that the \u201chigh tariffs\u201d, which the state-run discoms could object to, might force the government to cancel the bids. A similar rise in solar tariffs had resulted in auction process being put in abeyance. While solar tariffs reached the lowest level of `2.44\/unit in 2017, it has since [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259266","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=259266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}