{"id":425508,"date":"2021-07-12T11:29:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T05:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=425508"},"modified":"2021-07-12T13:35:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T08:05:44","slug":"snags-ail-power-plants-pspcl-blames-chinese-tech-at-one-old-age-of-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/snags-ail-power-plants-pspcl-blames-chinese-tech-at-one-old-age-of-another\/","title":{"rendered":"Snags ail power plants: PSPCL blames Chinese tech at one, old age of another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PUNJAB HAS two government-owned (1,760 MW) and three private thermal plants (3,920 MW) which have the potential to generate a total 5,680 MW of power. However, in the past 11 days (since June 30), three plants developed technical snags five times. Add to this other factors: dry spell and agriculture load. As a result, power regulatory measures have been imposed on industry while domestic consumers are also facing the heat in urban and suburban areas. Undeclared cuts ranging from 2-4 hours are being imposed in these areas, said sources.<\/p>\n<p>A private thermal plant located in Talwandi Sabo has the capacity to generate 1,980 MW, but as of now is generating only 330 MW. One of its three 660 MW units has been out of order since March-end and was not repaired even before paddy season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUNJAB HAS two government-owned (1,760 MW) and three private thermal plants (3,920 MW) which have the potential to generate a total 5,680 MW of power. However, in the past 11 days (since June 30), three plants developed technical snags five times. Add to this other factors: dry spell and agriculture load. As a result, power regulatory measures have been imposed on industry while domestic consumers are also facing the heat in urban and suburban areas. Undeclared cuts ranging from 2-4 hours are being imposed in these areas, said sources. A private thermal plant located in Talwandi Sabo has the capacity [&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-425508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425508","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=425508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}