{"id":406923,"date":"2021-03-25T10:58:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T05:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=406923"},"modified":"2021-03-25T10:58:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T05:28:42","slug":"centre-enables-discoms-to-relinquish-legacy-ppas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/centre-enables-discoms-to-relinquish-legacy-ppas\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre enables discoms to relinquish legacy PPAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has issued directions to enable power distribution companies to exit power purchase contracts with old central utilities-run stations, freeing up nearly 20 Gw capacity that can enter into short and medium term tie-ups or sell on exchange.<\/p>\n<p>The union power ministry has issued guidelines giving choice to the power distribution companies to continue or exit PPAs that have completed their 25-year term and allowing the generators to sell electricity in any mode, sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has issued directions to enable power distribution companies to exit power purchase contracts with old central utilities-run stations, freeing up nearly 20 Gw capacity that can enter into short and medium term tie-ups or sell on exchange. The union power ministry has issued guidelines giving choice to the power distribution companies to continue or exit PPAs that have completed their 25-year term and allowing the generators to sell electricity in any mode, sources said.<\/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-406923","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\/406923","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=406923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}