{"id":278717,"date":"2019-06-17T05:58:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T05:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=278717"},"modified":"2019-06-17T06:00:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T06:00:19","slug":"how-low-prices-prevent-india-from-supplying-power-24x7-to-all-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/how-low-prices-prevent-india-from-supplying-power-24x7-to-all-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"How low prices prevent India from supplying power 24&#215;7 to all homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India mined more coal, built more power plants, and distribution companies connected millions of homes to the grid over four years to 2019. But those companies are now saddled with a record debt that hinders a key government promise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c24&#215;7 power\u201d is the government\u2019s priority, India\u2019s new power minister Raj Kumar Singh said on May 30, 2019. His predecessor, Piyush Goyal, declared India \u201cpower surplus\u201d two years ago, and a government dashboard says 99.99 per cent of rural homes&#8211;which account for nearly 7 in 10 Indian homes&#8211;now have grid power.<\/p>\n<p>At the root of the contradictions between almost-universal electrification, \u201csurplus\u201d electricity and the inability to supply it around-the-clock to Indian homes is a debt that burdens state-owned electricity distribution companies (DISCOMs) nationwide, impairing their ability to build and maintain power grids and equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India mined more coal, built more power plants, and distribution companies connected millions of homes to the grid over four years to 2019. But those companies are now saddled with a record debt that hinders a key government promise. \u201c24&#215;7 power\u201d is the government\u2019s priority, India\u2019s new power minister Raj Kumar Singh said on May 30, 2019. His predecessor, Piyush Goyal, declared India \u201cpower surplus\u201d two years ago, and a government dashboard says 99.99 per cent of rural homes&#8211;which account for nearly 7 in 10 Indian homes&#8211;now have grid power. At the root of the contradictions between almost-universal electrification, \u201csurplus\u201d [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278717","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=278717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}