{"id":338252,"date":"2020-02-20T11:10:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T05:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=338252"},"modified":"2020-02-20T11:10:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T05:40:58","slug":"coal-auction-centre-decides-on-minimum-discounts-for-power-cos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-auction-centre-decides-on-minimum-discounts-for-power-cos\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal Auction: Centre decides on minimum discounts for power cos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thermal power units with electricity sale agreements but no fuel supply pact to support them will have to offer a minimum discount of 7 paise per unit on existing tariffs to get Coal India&#8217;s notified prices for 25 years, the government has recently decided.<\/p>\n<p>Some industry executives say the discount requirement is too high, being seven times of what was required in a similar auction in 2017. This will hurt margins, they said. Analysts said the government had to do a balancing act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thermal power units with electricity sale agreements but no fuel supply pact to support them will have to offer a minimum discount of 7 paise per unit on existing tariffs to get Coal India&#8217;s notified prices for 25 years, the government has recently decided. Some industry executives say the discount requirement is too high, being seven times of what was required in a similar auction in 2017. This will hurt margins, they said. Analysts said the government had to do a balancing act.<\/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":[194,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338252","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=338252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}