{"id":391755,"date":"2020-12-26T11:55:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T06:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=391755"},"modified":"2020-12-26T13:18:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T07:48:08","slug":"jk-spends-rs-18-crore-daily-on-power-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/jk-spends-rs-18-crore-daily-on-power-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"J&amp;K spends Rs 18 crore daily on power purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu and Kashmir is spending Rs 18 crore per day on power purchase against the average daily returns of Rs 6 crore on this count. <\/p>\n<p>To meet its power demand, J&amp;K enters into \u201carrangements\u201d with NHPC, NVVN, Punjab, Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Power Trading Corporation (PTC), NTPC, Vidhyut, Vyapar Nigam LTD, besides overdrawing from Northern Grid. <\/p>\n<p>According to official figures, the estimated hydropower potential of J&amp;K is 20,000 MW. Out of the identified potential, 1211 MW have been exploited in \u201cstate sector\u201d and 2009 MW in \u201ccentral sector\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs per the current power usage and low power production across J&amp;K, we are importing power worth Rs 18 crore a day,\u201d chief engineer, J&amp;K Power Corporation Limited, Er Muhammad Yusuf Baba said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu and Kashmir is spending Rs 18 crore per day on power purchase against the average daily returns of Rs 6 crore on this count. To meet its power demand, J&amp;K enters into \u201carrangements\u201d with NHPC, NVVN, Punjab, Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Power Trading Corporation (PTC), NTPC, Vidhyut, Vyapar Nigam LTD, besides overdrawing from Northern Grid. According to official figures, the estimated hydropower potential of J&amp;K is 20,000 MW. Out of the identified potential, 1211 MW have been exploited in \u201cstate sector\u201d and 2009 MW in \u201ccentral sector\u201d. \u201cAs per the current power usage and low power production across J&amp;K, we are [&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":[147,130,235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greater-kashmir","category-newspapers","category-power-greater-kashmir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391755","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=391755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}