{"id":347113,"date":"2020-04-17T11:42:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T06:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=347113"},"modified":"2020-04-17T11:42:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T06:12:50","slug":"hard-up-power-companies-may-get-breather-on-coal-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/hard-up-power-companies-may-get-breather-on-coal-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard-up power companies may get breather on coal use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The government is working on a plan to allow cash-strapped power plants to use their existing fuel supplies from Coal India LimitedNSE 1.32 % (CILNSE 1.01 %) to generate electricity for sale in the open market.<\/p>\n<p>Due to low electricity demand during the lockdown, distribution utilities have stopped power offtake and are unlikely to issue new medium-and long-term tenders for purchase of electricity.<\/p>\n<p>A senior power ministry official said the power ministry is working on a proposal to end restrictions on use of coal to produce electricity for supply only to long- and medium-term power purchase agreements (PPAs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The government is working on a plan to allow cash-strapped power plants to use their existing fuel supplies from Coal India LimitedNSE 1.32 % (CILNSE 1.01 %) to generate electricity for sale in the open market. Due to low electricity demand during the lockdown, distribution utilities have stopped power offtake and are unlikely to issue new medium-and long-term tenders for purchase of electricity. A senior power ministry official said the power ministry is working on a proposal to end restrictions on use of coal to produce electricity for supply only to long- and medium-term power purchase agreements (PPAs).<\/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":[194,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347113","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=347113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}