{"id":346598,"date":"2020-04-14T09:56:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T04:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=346598"},"modified":"2020-04-14T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T04:54:23","slug":"thermal-power-sector-faces-bleak-scenario-post-covid-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/thermal-power-sector-faces-bleak-scenario-post-covid-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Thermal power sector faces bleak scenario post-Covid situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19 may have served a lethal blow to India\u2019s stressed private thermal power generation sector, accounting for 37 per cent of 198-gigawatt coal-based generation capacity. <\/p>\n<p>Dominated by independent power producers (IPP), who do not have distribution rights; the sector tops the chart on loan defaults. The situation may complicate further post-Covid; unless the Centre takes a fresh look at the coal-energy value chain. <\/p>\n<p>Cash-draught <\/p>\n<p>Stung of a series of policy failures; IPPs were suffering from huge payment backlog by stressed State distribution utilities (DISCOM) as well as weak offtake scenario vis-\u00e0-vis capacity, for many years now. The power ministry just initiated measures to regularize DISCOM payments, when India went under lockdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19 may have served a lethal blow to India\u2019s stressed private thermal power generation sector, accounting for 37 per cent of 198-gigawatt coal-based generation capacity. Dominated by independent power producers (IPP), who do not have distribution rights; the sector tops the chart on loan defaults. The situation may complicate further post-Covid; unless the Centre takes a fresh look at the coal-energy value chain. Cash-draught Stung of a series of policy failures; IPPs were suffering from huge payment backlog by stressed State distribution utilities (DISCOM) as well as weak offtake scenario vis-\u00e0-vis capacity, for many years now. The power ministry just [&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-346598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346598","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=346598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}