{"id":282210,"date":"2019-07-15T06:30:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T06:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=282210"},"modified":"2019-07-15T06:30:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T06:30:48","slug":"uttar-pradesh-not-to-go-in-for-new-contracts-for-thermal-power-till-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uttar-pradesh-not-to-go-in-for-new-contracts-for-thermal-power-till-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Uttar Pradesh not to go in for new contracts for thermal power till 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uttar Pradesh\u2019s electricity regulator has directed the state electricity distribution companies (discoms) not to sign any new power purchase agreements (PPAs) with thermal power plants till December 2022. Keeping in mind the state\u2019s failure to achieve its renewable purchase obligations (RPOs), the regulator instructed the discoms to signs new PPAs with renewable energy-based power sources, including hydro. The discoms were also suggested to invest in power storage technologies to meet the spurts of peak demand which lasts only for short durations.<\/p>\n<p>The average power demand of the state is currently around 13,000 MW. During peak hours, demand rises to 22,000 MW. UP\u2019s contracted PPA capacity is around 18,134 MW (14,161 MW thermal, 3,016 MW hydro and 958 MW renewable).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uttar Pradesh\u2019s electricity regulator has directed the state electricity distribution companies (discoms) not to sign any new power purchase agreements (PPAs) with thermal power plants till December 2022. Keeping in mind the state\u2019s failure to achieve its renewable purchase obligations (RPOs), the regulator instructed the discoms to signs new PPAs with renewable energy-based power sources, including hydro. The discoms were also suggested to invest in power storage technologies to meet the spurts of peak demand which lasts only for short durations. The average power demand of the state is currently around 13,000 MW. During peak hours, demand rises to 22,000 [&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-282210","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\/282210","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=282210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}