{"id":406268,"date":"2021-03-22T11:17:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T05:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=406268"},"modified":"2021-03-22T12:00:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T06:30:31","slug":"private-firms-produce-cheaper-power-compared-to-state-run-entities-says-saurabh-patel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/private-firms-produce-cheaper-power-compared-to-state-run-entities-says-saurabh-patel\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Private firms produce cheaper power compared to state-run entities\u2019 says Saurabh Patel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEARING THE air on why the state government buys power from private producers in Gujarat, Saurabh Patel state energy minister told the Assembly Saturday the power from private producers is nearly 55 per cent cheaper than those produced by state-run firms. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Gujarat government buys power from 596 players who have signed PPAs (power purchase agreements )with the government. A total of 32,980 million units is being bought by the government. Speaker sir, today the power produced by private players is costing Rs 3.08 a unit, while those produced by the state run units cost Rs 5.43 a unit as our plants are old, coal comes from far off places and transportation costs are more,\u201d said Patel. He was speaking on the budgetary demands for industry, mines and minerals, ports, energy and petrochemicals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLEARING THE air on why the state government buys power from private producers in Gujarat, Saurabh Patel state energy minister told the Assembly Saturday the power from private producers is nearly 55 per cent cheaper than those produced by state-run firms. \u201cThe Gujarat government buys power from 596 players who have signed PPAs (power purchase agreements )with the government. A total of 32,980 million units is being bought by the government. Speaker sir, today the power produced by private players is costing Rs 3.08 a unit, while those produced by the state run units cost Rs 5.43 a unit as [&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-406268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406268","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=406268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}