{"id":339090,"date":"2020-02-26T12:17:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T06:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=339090"},"modified":"2020-02-26T12:17:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T06:47:45","slug":"virus%e2%80%8a-outbreak-fires-up-indias-stranded-gas-fuelled-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/virus%e2%80%8a-outbreak-fires-up-indias-stranded-gas-fuelled-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Virus\u200a outbreak fires up India\u2019s stranded gas-fuelled projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The coronavirus outbreak has thrown a lifeline to India\u2019s stranded gas-fuelled power plants with global liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices plunging to less than $3 per million British thermal units (mmBtu) from a peak of $11.3\/mmBtu in September 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Plant operators are looking to revive their gas-fired capacity, which accounts for 7%, or 24,937.22 megawatts (MW), of India\u2019s total capacity.<\/p>\n<p>A case in point being Gujarat, which plans to leverage the prevailing lower prices to kick-start its 2,200 MW gas-fuelled projects that depends on imported gas, the state\u2019s energy minister Saurabh Patel said in an interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The coronavirus outbreak has thrown a lifeline to India\u2019s stranded gas-fuelled power plants with global liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices plunging to less than $3 per million British thermal units (mmBtu) from a peak of $11.3\/mmBtu in September 2018. Plant operators are looking to revive their gas-fired capacity, which accounts for 7%, or 24,937.22 megawatts (MW), of India\u2019s total capacity. A case in point being Gujarat, which plans to leverage the prevailing lower prices to kick-start its 2,200 MW gas-fuelled projects that depends on imported gas, the state\u2019s energy minister Saurabh Patel said in an interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339090","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}