{"id":363023,"date":"2020-07-16T11:20:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T05:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=363023"},"modified":"2020-07-16T11:20:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T05:50:59","slug":"govt-gives-go-ahead-to-electricity-derivatives-forward-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-gives-go-ahead-to-electricity-derivatives-forward-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt gives go ahead to electricity derivatives, forward contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Electricity will now be traded as other commodities with forward contracts and derivatives on exchanges as the government issued an order permitting the same, a move experts say can transform power contracting in India.<\/p>\n<p>The power ministry issued the order on July 10 after consulting the Solicitor General on a decade-long jurisdictional spat between power regulator Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) and the Securities &amp; Exchange Board of India (Sebi). The two regulators had earlier agreed to mutually settle the issue. The order is subject to a verdict by the Supreme Court that will hear the matter on August 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Electricity will now be traded as other commodities with forward contracts and derivatives on exchanges as the government issued an order permitting the same, a move experts say can transform power contracting in India. The power ministry issued the order on July 10 after consulting the Solicitor General on a decade-long jurisdictional spat between power regulator Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) and the Securities &amp; Exchange Board of India (Sebi). The two regulators had earlier agreed to mutually settle the issue. The order is subject to a verdict by the Supreme Court that will hear the matter on [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363023","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=363023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}