{"id":365050,"date":"2020-07-28T11:15:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T05:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=365050"},"modified":"2020-07-28T11:15:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T05:45:25","slug":"round-the-clock-power-supply-discoms-can-now-bundle-thermal-solar-power-for-24x7-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/round-the-clock-power-supply-discoms-can-now-bundle-thermal-solar-power-for-24x7-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Round-the-clock power supply: Discoms can now bundle thermal, solar power for 24X7 distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Solar and thermal power can be bundled by bidders to provide 24&#215;7 electricity to distribution companies, according to new official guidelines issued to scale up renewable energy without hurting the grid with intermittent supply.<\/p>\n<p>Power generators have to ensure at least 85% availability both annually and during peak hours, said the guidelines issued by the ministry of power for procurement of round-the-clock power from grid-connected projects. Bidders will have to supply at least 51% of the power from renewable sources, which may include supply using storage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Solar and thermal power can be bundled by bidders to provide 24&#215;7 electricity to distribution companies, according to new official guidelines issued to scale up renewable energy without hurting the grid with intermittent supply. Power generators have to ensure at least 85% availability both annually and during peak hours, said the guidelines issued by the ministry of power for procurement of round-the-clock power from grid-connected projects. Bidders will have to supply at least 51% of the power from renewable sources, which may include supply using storage.<\/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-365050","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\/365050","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=365050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}