{"id":284868,"date":"2019-07-29T06:05:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T06:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=284868"},"modified":"2019-07-29T06:05:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T06:05:29","slug":"discoms-make-a-beeline-for-cheaper-power-supplied-by-ntpc-under-sced-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/discoms-make-a-beeline-for-cheaper-power-supplied-by-ntpc-under-sced-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Discoms make a beeline for cheaper power supplied by NTPC under SCED system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large number of discoms are making a beeline for the power supplied by NTPC under the SCED system which facilitates supply of cheaper electricity on priority, industry sources said. <\/p>\n<p>Under SCED (Security Constrained Economic Dispatch), implemented over a year ago, power generating companies raise capacity utilisation of more efficient plants or of those units which are located closer to coal mines and thus have lower freight cost. <\/p>\n<p>As a result, the cost of power production goes down, which benefits both the distribution companies (discoms) and end consumers. <\/p>\n<p>The mechanism then pools supply from selected stations on a national-level &#8216;merit order&#8217;, under which power is first dispatched from lower fuel cost units whenever any state seeks electricity from the central pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large number of discoms are making a beeline for the power supplied by NTPC under the SCED system which facilitates supply of cheaper electricity on priority, industry sources said. Under SCED (Security Constrained Economic Dispatch), implemented over a year ago, power generating companies raise capacity utilisation of more efficient plants or of those units which are located closer to coal mines and thus have lower freight cost. As a result, the cost of power production goes down, which benefits both the distribution companies (discoms) and end consumers. The mechanism then pools supply from selected stations on a national-level &#8216;merit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"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-284868","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\/284868","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}