{"id":296603,"date":"2019-10-17T11:45:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T06:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=296603"},"modified":"2019-10-17T11:51:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T06:21:12","slug":"hc-breather-to-andhra-discoms-on-lcs-to-wind-solar-firms-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/hc-breather-to-andhra-discoms-on-lcs-to-wind-solar-firms-2\/","title":{"rendered":"HC breather to Andhra discoms on LCs to wind, solar firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: In a breather to ailing power distribution companies (discoms) in Andhra Pradesh, the Vijayawada high court on Tuesday stayed orders of the Union power ministry directing them to provide letters of credit to wind and solar energy developers against payments.<\/p>\n<p>The court, in its interim orders, also blocked the Central power ministry and its agencies from disallowing Andhra discoms to buy power through the open access system and power exchanges.<\/p>\n<p>The relief comes as the state reels under coal shortages at its thermal power stations and electricity is procured through short-term open access and power exchanges to meet its needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: In a breather to ailing power distribution companies (discoms) in Andhra Pradesh, the Vijayawada high court on Tuesday stayed orders of the Union power ministry directing them to provide letters of credit to wind and solar energy developers against payments. The court, in its interim orders, also blocked the Central power ministry and its agencies from disallowing Andhra discoms to buy power through the open access system and power exchanges. The relief comes as the state reels under coal shortages at its thermal power stations and electricity is procured through short-term open access and power exchanges to meet its [&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-296603","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\/296603","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=296603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}