{"id":347663,"date":"2020-04-21T10:31:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T05:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=347663"},"modified":"2020-04-21T11:07:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T05:37:23","slug":"iex-discoms-benefit-from-flexible-15-min-trading-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iex-discoms-benefit-from-flexible-15-min-trading-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"IEX: Discoms benefit from flexible 15-min trading blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power trading platform The Indian Energy Exchange (IEX) has highlighted the flexibility offered by energy exchanges to ensure adequate power to meet fluctuating domestic demand.<\/p>\n<p>The Covid-19 crisis has seen a 25 per cent dip in national peak power demand from 165 GW in pre-lockdown period to 125 GW during lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Management of such a largescale variation warrants greater flexibility to readjust generation, despatch and distribution to accommodate foreseeable and unplanned demand-supply disparity.<\/p>\n<p>IEX\u2019s 15-min trading blocks allow discoms to procure power during 96 different time blocks in a single day. For instance, on April 14, a southern distribution utility procured 345 MW during a time block and 1,800 MW in another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power trading platform The Indian Energy Exchange (IEX) has highlighted the flexibility offered by energy exchanges to ensure adequate power to meet fluctuating domestic demand. The Covid-19 crisis has seen a 25 per cent dip in national peak power demand from 165 GW in pre-lockdown period to 125 GW during lockdown. Management of such a largescale variation warrants greater flexibility to readjust generation, despatch and distribution to accommodate foreseeable and unplanned demand-supply disparity. IEX\u2019s 15-min trading blocks allow discoms to procure power during 96 different time blocks in a single day. For instance, on April 14, a southern distribution utility [&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-347663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347663","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=347663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}