{"id":282084,"date":"2019-07-15T05:31:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T05:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=282084"},"modified":"2019-07-15T05:31:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T05:31:43","slug":"discoms-paying-more-on-short-term-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/discoms-paying-more-on-short-term-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"Discoms paying more on short-term contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: State electricity distribution companies have paid much higher tariffs to buy power on short-term contracts over the last few months, shelling out a few thousand crore rupees more than they did for spot market buys. This has raised questions over prudent power procurement at these power distributors at a time when many are cash-strapped due to rising electricity costs. <\/p>\n<p>States have bought power at an average rate of Rs 6 per unit from November 2018 to May 2019, according to an ETanalysis of short-term power purchases on the Centre\u2019s ebidding portal DEEP. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: State electricity distribution companies have paid much higher tariffs to buy power on short-term contracts over the last few months, shelling out a few thousand crore rupees more than they did for spot market buys. This has raised questions over prudent power procurement at these power distributors at a time when many are cash-strapped due to rising electricity costs. States have bought power at an average rate of Rs 6 per unit from November 2018 to May 2019, according to an ETanalysis of short-term power purchases on the Centre\u2019s ebidding portal DEEP.<\/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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282084","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=282084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}