{"id":406477,"date":"2021-03-23T11:12:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T05:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=406477"},"modified":"2021-03-23T11:12:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T05:42:07","slug":"33-more-power-for-mumbai-as-adani-to-add-1000mw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/33-more-power-for-mumbai-as-adani-to-add-1000mw\/","title":{"rendered":"33% more power for Mumbai as Adani to add 1,000MW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) on Monday granted a transmission licence to Adani Electricity Mumbai Infra Ltd for 25 years, enabling the firm to bring 1,000MW, or 33% more electricity, to Mumbai to cater to increasing demand.<br \/>\nMumbai consumes 2,500-3,000MW during peak load, which goes up to 3,500MW in summer. Power expert Ashok Pendse said while the cost for consumers will rise by 6-7 paise per unit, with the demand set to increase in the coming months, it will help the city to have more power.<br \/>\nAdani to set up high-voltage DC link of 80km<br \/>\nSince 1981, the city has been protected by \u2018islanding\u2019 system, for which citizens pay Rs 450-500 crore each year through electricity bills. This is to ensure Mumbai gets constant supply even if there is power outage in MMR or elsewhere in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) on Monday granted a transmission licence to Adani Electricity Mumbai Infra Ltd for 25 years, enabling the firm to bring 1,000MW, or 33% more electricity, to Mumbai to cater to increasing demand. Mumbai consumes 2,500-3,000MW during peak load, which goes up to 3,500MW in summer. Power expert Ashok Pendse said while the cost for consumers will rise by 6-7 paise per unit, with the demand set to increase in the coming months, it will help the city to have more power. Adani to set up high-voltage DC link of 80km Since 1981, the city [&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-406477","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\/406477","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=406477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}