{"id":264772,"date":"2019-03-16T07:15:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T07:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=264772"},"modified":"2019-03-16T07:15:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T07:15:59","slug":"lok-sabha-elections-2019-states-to-spend-more-to-avoid-power-cuts-during-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lok-sabha-elections-2019-states-to-spend-more-to-avoid-power-cuts-during-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Lok Sabha Elections 2019: States to spend more to avoid power cuts during polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the upcoming general elections to be held in April and May, states have started making arrangements to tie up power supply agreements on a short-term basis for these two months at prices much higher than they normally pay.<\/p>\n<p>While the average all-India price at which states procured non-renewable power in FY18 was Rs 3.53\/unit, the price range for these bilateral power deals range between Rs 4.45\/unit and Rs 8.5\/unit.<\/p>\n<p>In the auctions for such power supply agreements, states such as Maharashtra, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Haryana seek to tie up a cumulative 5,500 MW capacity for the election months to avoid power cuts. West Bengal has also requisitioned for 500 MW in April under this route, at a price range of Rs 5.10\/unit-Rs 7.20\/unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the upcoming general elections to be held in April and May, states have started making arrangements to tie up power supply agreements on a short-term basis for these two months at prices much higher than they normally pay. While the average all-India price at which states procured non-renewable power in FY18 was Rs 3.53\/unit, the price range for these bilateral power deals range between Rs 4.45\/unit and Rs 8.5\/unit. In the auctions for such power supply agreements, states such as Maharashtra, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Haryana seek to tie up a cumulative 5,500 MW capacity for the [&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-264772","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\/264772","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=264772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}