{"id":292604,"date":"2019-09-19T05:04:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T05:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=292604"},"modified":"2019-09-19T05:18:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T05:18:07","slug":"ntpc-contains-tariff-rise-with-fall-in-coal-imports-power-blending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ntpc-contains-tariff-rise-with-fall-in-coal-imports-power-blending\/","title":{"rendered":"NTPC contains tariff rise with fall in coal imports, power blending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NTPC has succeeded stemming the hike in power tariff over the past five years despite a five per cent increase in annual consumer price index inflation from 2013-14 to 2018-19.<\/p>\n<p>The government-owned power generator saw its average nominal tariff change only marginally from Rs 3.30 to Rs 3.38 per unit during the period even as Coal India Ltd (CIL)&#8217;s post-tax coal prices rose at a 4.1 per cent compounded annual growth rate (CAGR).<\/p>\n<p>NTPC&#8217;s fuel expenses dipped from Rs 1.97 per unit in FY14 to Rs 1.92 at the end of FY19. According to a report by US-based think-tank Institute for Energy Economics &amp; Financial Analysis (IEEFA), no material change in NTPC\u2019s average tariff reflects a deflation in real terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NTPC has succeeded stemming the hike in power tariff over the past five years despite a five per cent increase in annual consumer price index inflation from 2013-14 to 2018-19. The government-owned power generator saw its average nominal tariff change only marginally from Rs 3.30 to Rs 3.38 per unit during the period even as Coal India Ltd (CIL)&#8217;s post-tax coal prices rose at a 4.1 per cent compounded annual growth rate (CAGR). NTPC&#8217;s fuel expenses dipped from Rs 1.97 per unit in FY14 to Rs 1.92 at the end of FY19. According to a report by US-based think-tank Institute [&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-292604","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\/292604","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=292604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}