{"id":424134,"date":"2021-07-03T11:16:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T05:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=424134"},"modified":"2021-07-03T12:47:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T07:17:42","slug":"bses-discoms-get-cerc-nod-to-exit-costly-dadri-power-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bses-discoms-get-cerc-nod-to-exit-costly-dadri-power-pact\/","title":{"rendered":"BSES discoms get CERC nod to exit costly Dadri power pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The central power regulator has allowed BSES Yamuna Power and BSES Rajdhani Power to exit a 25-year-old PPA (power purchase agreement) with state-run NTPC\u2019s Dadri power station, a move that will help keep electricity tariffs low for the capital\u2019s 45 lakh consumers served by the two discoms (distribution companies). <\/p>\n<p>BSES Yamuna had an allocation of 62 MW and BSES Rajdhani 560 MW from the Dadri Stage-I unit at roughly Rs 6 per unit, abundant supply is currently available on the exchanges at half the price. <\/p>\n<p>The ruling will allow the discoms to replace the costly power with cheaper supplies, especially from renewable sources to meet regulatory obligation to buy green power. This will help lower tariffs for consumers and subsidy burden for the Delhi government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The central power regulator has allowed BSES Yamuna Power and BSES Rajdhani Power to exit a 25-year-old PPA (power purchase agreement) with state-run NTPC\u2019s Dadri power station, a move that will help keep electricity tariffs low for the capital\u2019s 45 lakh consumers served by the two discoms (distribution companies). BSES Yamuna had an allocation of 62 MW and BSES Rajdhani 560 MW from the Dadri Stage-I unit at roughly Rs 6 per unit, abundant supply is currently available on the exchanges at half the price. The ruling will allow the discoms to replace the costly power with cheaper [&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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424134","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\/424134","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=424134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}