{"id":293918,"date":"2019-09-26T12:15:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T06:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=293918"},"modified":"2019-09-26T12:15:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T06:45:06","slug":"financial-situation-of-discoms-cannot-be-tied-to-renewable-ppas-union-power-minister-rk-singh-tells-cm-jagan-reddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/financial-situation-of-discoms-cannot-be-tied-to-renewable-ppas-union-power-minister-rk-singh-tells-cm-jagan-reddy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Financial situation of Discoms cannot be tied to renewable PPAs\u2019, Union Power Minister RK Singh tells CM Jagan Reddy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VIJAYAWADA: After the Andhra Pradesh High Court directed the renewable power generators, who opposed the State government\u2019s move to renegotiate wind and solar power purchase agreements (PPAs), to approach the Andhra Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (APERC) to raise their concerns, a letter written by Union Power Minister RK Singh, last week, to Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has emerged, in which the former disagreed with the latter\u2019s argument that higher tariff of renewable power led to mounting liabilities of Discoms.<\/p>\n<p>Requesting not to revisit the PPAs on the basis of \u2018apprehensions of irregularities\u2019, the Union minister observed that the tariff fixed in Andhra Pradesh was either lesser or on par with those in other States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIJAYAWADA: After the Andhra Pradesh High Court directed the renewable power generators, who opposed the State government\u2019s move to renegotiate wind and solar power purchase agreements (PPAs), to approach the Andhra Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (APERC) to raise their concerns, a letter written by Union Power Minister RK Singh, last week, to Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has emerged, in which the former disagreed with the latter\u2019s argument that higher tariff of renewable power led to mounting liabilities of Discoms. Requesting not to revisit the PPAs on the basis of \u2018apprehensions of irregularities\u2019, the Union minister observed that the [&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":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293918","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=293918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}