{"id":344243,"date":"2020-03-30T12:11:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T06:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=344243"},"modified":"2020-03-30T12:11:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T06:41:17","slug":"gencos-3370-mw-thermal-units-kept-in-reserve-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gencos-3370-mw-thermal-units-kept-in-reserve-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"GENCO\u2019s 3,370 MW thermal units kept in reserve shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VIJAYAWADA: With the power demand drastically falling due to the lockdown imposed in view of covid-19, thermal power generation stations of APGENCO including five units of Rayalaseema Thermal Power Plant (RTPP), Kadapa, four units of Dr Narla Tatarao Thermal Power Station(Dr NTTPS), Vijayawada, one unit in Sri Damodaram Sanjeevaiah Thermal Power Station, Krishnapatnam, one unit of Kudigi and a 40 MW unit in Valluru have been kept under reserve shutdown. Instead of spending high amounts on power, the department has been procuring low-cost power at Rs 1.95 to Rs 2.25 per unit since the lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>According to the officials, the demand fell by 22 per cent ever since the lockdown was announced last Tuesday (March 24). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIJAYAWADA: With the power demand drastically falling due to the lockdown imposed in view of covid-19, thermal power generation stations of APGENCO including five units of Rayalaseema Thermal Power Plant (RTPP), Kadapa, four units of Dr Narla Tatarao Thermal Power Station(Dr NTTPS), Vijayawada, one unit in Sri Damodaram Sanjeevaiah Thermal Power Station, Krishnapatnam, one unit of Kudigi and a 40 MW unit in Valluru have been kept under reserve shutdown. Instead of spending high amounts on power, the department has been procuring low-cost power at Rs 1.95 to Rs 2.25 per unit since the lockdown. According to the officials, 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-344243","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\/344243","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=344243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}