{"id":282092,"date":"2019-07-15T05:33:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T05:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=282092"},"modified":"2019-07-15T05:33:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T05:33:28","slug":"up-discoms-not-to-sign-new-coal-power-contracts-for-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/up-discoms-not-to-sign-new-coal-power-contracts-for-three-years\/","title":{"rendered":"UP discoms not to sign new coal power contracts for three years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Power distribution companies from Uttar Pradesh will not sign new long-term coal based power contracts for the next three years to avoid the burden of fixed costs and to optimise their current agreements. <\/p>\n<p>The companies will instead contract long-term renewable energy through tariff-based competitive bidding to fulfil their renewable purchase obligations. <\/p>\n<p>Industry experts said, though UP accounts for around 10% of the country\u2019s power demand, the decision of the state government will not adversely affect power generators since there have been no long-term agreements in the industry for almost a decade. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Power distribution companies from Uttar Pradesh will not sign new long-term coal based power contracts for the next three years to avoid the burden of fixed costs and to optimise their current agreements. The companies will instead contract long-term renewable energy through tariff-based competitive bidding to fulfil their renewable purchase obligations. Industry experts said, though UP accounts for around 10% of the country\u2019s power demand, the decision of the state government will not adversely affect power generators since there have been no long-term agreements in the industry for almost a decade.<\/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-282092","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\/282092","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=282092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}