{"id":358211,"date":"2020-06-19T12:02:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T06:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=358211"},"modified":"2020-06-19T12:02:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T06:32:56","slug":"tangedco-to-buy-500mw-solar-power-for-25-years-to-meet-clean-energy-quota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tangedco-to-buy-500mw-solar-power-for-25-years-to-meet-clean-energy-quota\/","title":{"rendered":"Tangedco to buy 500MW solar power for 25 years to meet clean energy quota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Tangedco is all set to purchase 500MW of solar power at 2.78 per unit from Solar Energy Corporation of India for the next 25 years for the discom to fulfil its renewable (solar) purchase obligation (RPO).<br \/>\nAccording to the ministry of new and renewable power (MNRE), about 9,000MW of solar power is required for 2021-22 to meet Tamil Nadu\u2019s solar purchase obligation.<br \/>\n\u201cAs on January 31, 2020, approximately 4,000MW of solar power capacity has been commissioned in the state and another 5,000 MW of solar power is required within the next two years. Considering the on-going projects, only 250MW capacity can be added for the year 2019-20,\u201d said a senior Tangedco official.<br \/>\nBased on this, the discom sought the permission of Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission for purchasing 500MW of solar power from SECI.<br \/>\n\u201cThere is a shortfall of solar power obligation even after floating tenders in four phases since 2016 as not many solar power companies came forward to invest in the state,\u201d said the official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Tangedco is all set to purchase 500MW of solar power at 2.78 per unit from Solar Energy Corporation of India for the next 25 years for the discom to fulfil its renewable (solar) purchase obligation (RPO). According to the ministry of new and renewable power (MNRE), about 9,000MW of solar power is required for 2021-22 to meet Tamil Nadu\u2019s solar purchase obligation. \u201cAs on January 31, 2020, approximately 4,000MW of solar power capacity has been commissioned in the state and another 5,000 MW of solar power is required within the next two years. Considering the on-going projects, only 250MW [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358211","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}