{"id":263617,"date":"2019-03-12T05:49:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T05:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=263617"},"modified":"2019-03-12T05:49:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T05:49:11","slug":"cerc-allows-power-plants-to-claim-higher-compensation-for-loss-in-fuel-quality-of-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cerc-allows-power-plants-to-claim-higher-compensation-for-loss-in-fuel-quality-of-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"CERC allows power plants to claim higher compensation for loss in fuel quality of coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has allowed power plants (selling electricity under the \u2018cost plus\u2019 system) to receive higher compensation for loss in fuel quality while coal is ferried and stored. Additionally, for computing tariff of power from such plants, the electricity regulator also maintained the base return on equity (RoE) at 15.5%.<\/p>\n<p>The latest regulations will impact the electricity tariff for 76 giga-watt (GW) power plants that sell power under the \u2018cost-plus\u2019 system between FY19 and FY-24. Apart from state-run NTPC, the new regulations would also have a bearing on returns of stressed power assets such as Jaiprakash Power Ventures\u2019 Nigrie and Bina plants, Avantha Group\u2019s Jhabua plant, GVK Power\u2019s Goindwal Sahib, KVK Group\u2019s Nilachal unit and Lanco Babandh station, which supply part of their electricity under the \u2018cost plus\u2019 regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has allowed power plants (selling electricity under the \u2018cost plus\u2019 system) to receive higher compensation for loss in fuel quality while coal is ferried and stored. Additionally, for computing tariff of power from such plants, the electricity regulator also maintained the base return on equity (RoE) at 15.5%. The latest regulations will impact the electricity tariff for 76 giga-watt (GW) power plants that sell power under the \u2018cost-plus\u2019 system between FY19 and FY-24. Apart from state-run NTPC, the new regulations would also have a bearing on returns of stressed power assets such as Jaiprakash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-263617","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\/263617","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}