{"id":346501,"date":"2020-04-13T11:24:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T05:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=346501"},"modified":"2020-04-13T12:27:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T06:57:32","slug":"ap-transco-steps-up-purchases-from-exchanges-saves-%e2%82%b956-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ap-transco-steps-up-purchases-from-exchanges-saves-%e2%82%b956-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"AP Transco steps up purchases from exchanges, saves \u20b956 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the 21-day nationwide lockdown, AP Transco has swapped high cost power with cheaper power through spot power purchase from energy exchanges which has<\/p>\n<p>resulted in a net savings of \u20b956 crore in March.<\/p>\n<p>The Transco strategically decided to buy power in the spot market where the prices hovered at around \u20b92 per kWh. <\/p>\n<p>According to officials, 14-20 million units (MU) per day were purchased from the power exchanges in March. In all, 357.22 MUs were purchased at prices ranging between \u20b92.04 and \u20b92.64 per unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the 21-day nationwide lockdown, AP Transco has swapped high cost power with cheaper power through spot power purchase from energy exchanges which has resulted in a net savings of \u20b956 crore in March. The Transco strategically decided to buy power in the spot market where the prices hovered at around \u20b92 per kWh. According to officials, 14-20 million units (MU) per day were purchased from the power exchanges in March. In all, 357.22 MUs were purchased at prices ranging between \u20b92.04 and \u20b92.64 per unit.<\/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-346501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346501","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=346501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}