{"id":433675,"date":"2021-09-02T11:41:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T06:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=433675"},"modified":"2021-09-02T11:42:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T06:12:01","slug":"spot-power-volumes-rises-to-record-at-indian-energy-exchange-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/spot-power-volumes-rises-to-record-at-indian-energy-exchange-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Spot power volumes rises to record at Indian Energy Exchange in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a shortage of coal reported in several power plants amid rising electricity demand, power traded in the Indian Energy Exchange (IEX) touched an all-time high monthly volume of 9,538 million units (MU) in August. The volume traded in the month was about 74% higher than August last year, the IEX said in a statement. The highest electricity trading in IEX was done in the day-ahead market segment, scheduling 6,649 MU in the month, at an average rate of Rs 5.06\/unit. This is comparable with the 4,484 MU traded through the day-ahead market in August 2020, at an average tariff of Rs 2.43\/unit.<\/p>\n<p>As FE recently reported, the price of power in the spot market touched an all-time high level of Rs 20\/unit on August 29, a day after power supply shortage across the country was as high as 77.7 MU. The supply shortage on the same day in 2020 was 2.3 MU, and a paucity of 18.9 MU shortage was recorded on a corresponding day in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a shortage of coal reported in several power plants amid rising electricity demand, power traded in the Indian Energy Exchange (IEX) touched an all-time high monthly volume of 9,538 million units (MU) in August. The volume traded in the month was about 74% higher than August last year, the IEX said in a statement. The highest electricity trading in IEX was done in the day-ahead market segment, scheduling 6,649 MU in the month, at an average rate of Rs 5.06\/unit. This is comparable with the 4,484 MU traded through the day-ahead market in August 2020, at an average tariff [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433675","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=433675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}