{"id":287755,"date":"2019-08-20T05:04:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T05:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=287755"},"modified":"2019-08-20T05:15:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T05:15:29","slug":"ntpc-plans-to-spend-rs-20000-cr-on-5000-mw-ultra-mega-solar-park-in-kutch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ntpc-plans-to-spend-rs-20000-cr-on-5000-mw-ultra-mega-solar-park-in-kutch\/","title":{"rendered":"NTPC plans to spend Rs 20,000 cr on 5,000-Mw ultra mega solar park in Kutch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s largest power producer NTPC plans to set up an ultra-mega solar park in Gujarat for a phased capacity of 5000 MW at an estimated investment of Rs 20,000 crore. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have identified two-three locations in the Kutch district and the park is likely to developed at Rs 4 crore per MW cost,\u201d said Gurdeep Singh, chairman and managing director for NTPC. He added the company is also exploring Rajasthan as a location for another solar park. <\/p>\n<p>NTPC is also considering spot market options to sell some part of its solar power, without signing long term power purchase agreements. \u201cWe are exploring if we can have some capacity on merchant basis,\u201d Singh added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s largest power producer NTPC plans to set up an ultra-mega solar park in Gujarat for a phased capacity of 5000 MW at an estimated investment of Rs 20,000 crore. \u201cWe have identified two-three locations in the Kutch district and the park is likely to developed at Rs 4 crore per MW cost,\u201d said Gurdeep Singh, chairman and managing director for NTPC. He added the company is also exploring Rajasthan as a location for another solar park. NTPC is also considering spot market options to sell some part of its solar power, without signing long term power purchase agreements. [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287755","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\/287755","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=287755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}