{"id":341376,"date":"2020-03-11T11:54:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T06:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=341376"},"modified":"2020-03-11T12:17:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T06:47:33","slug":"private-power-generators-face-slew-of-hurdles-seek-short-term-solution-from-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/private-power-generators-face-slew-of-hurdles-seek-short-term-solution-from-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Private power generators face slew of hurdles; seek short-term solution from govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Privately-run power generators, which contribute half of India\u2019s installed capacity, are plagued with a slew of problems. These include unrealised dues from State-run distribution utilities (DISCOMs), discrimination in granting fuel-linkages and power purchase\/sales agreements (PPAs), and having to cope with stiff environmental norms.<\/p>\n<p>On February 27, the Association of Power Producers (APP), a body of independent power producers (IPPs), in a letter pointed to the Union Power Minister that introduction of LC-based power purchase had stopped piling up of current dues since August 2019. <\/p>\n<p>However, earlier dues amounting to \u20b943,170 crore remain unrealised. A majority of these dues are piled up with a handful of States like Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, and Telengana. The amount is increasing progressively due to addition of late payment surcharge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privately-run power generators, which contribute half of India\u2019s installed capacity, are plagued with a slew of problems. These include unrealised dues from State-run distribution utilities (DISCOMs), discrimination in granting fuel-linkages and power purchase\/sales agreements (PPAs), and having to cope with stiff environmental norms. On February 27, the Association of Power Producers (APP), a body of independent power producers (IPPs), in a letter pointed to the Union Power Minister that introduction of LC-based power purchase had stopped piling up of current dues since August 2019. However, earlier dues amounting to \u20b943,170 crore remain unrealised. A majority of these dues are piled [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341376","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=341376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}