{"id":275656,"date":"2019-05-22T06:20:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T06:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=275656"},"modified":"2019-05-22T06:20:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T06:20:52","slug":"stress-meter-discoms-dues-to-gencos-at-rs-3800-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/stress-meter-discoms-dues-to-gencos-at-rs-3800-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"Stress meter: Discoms\u2019 dues to gencos at Rs 3,800 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-run electricity distribution companies\u2019 (discoms) dues to power producers stood at Rs 38,023 crore at the end of 2018-19, up 59.8% from a year earlier and 65% of these were \u201cover-dues\u201d with payment default of 60 days or more. The dues include those to independent power producers (about 46% of the total) and state-run utilities like NTPC, DVC and NHPC.<\/p>\n<p>The steep rise in dues comes at a time when generation units with combined capacity of 40 gigawatts (GW) are stressed and the sector is still grappling with the fall-out of several years of muted demand growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-run electricity distribution companies\u2019 (discoms) dues to power producers stood at Rs 38,023 crore at the end of 2018-19, up 59.8% from a year earlier and 65% of these were \u201cover-dues\u201d with payment default of 60 days or more. The dues include those to independent power producers (about 46% of the total) and state-run utilities like NTPC, DVC and NHPC. The steep rise in dues comes at a time when generation units with combined capacity of 40 gigawatts (GW) are stressed and the sector is still grappling with the fall-out of several years of muted demand growth.<\/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-275656","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\/275656","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=275656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}