{"id":441088,"date":"2021-10-11T08:46:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T03:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=441088"},"modified":"2021-10-11T09:27:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T03:57:19","slug":"kerala-stares-at-rising-power-purchase-cost-asks-consumers-to-clear-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kerala-stares-at-rising-power-purchase-cost-asks-consumers-to-clear-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala stares at rising power purchase cost, asks consumers to clear bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala\u2019s cost for purchasing power could increase two-fold, as it is dependent on other states for at least 75 per cent of its requirement at time when India\u2019s coal stocks are at critical levels.<\/p>\n<p>Kerala, in financial year 2020-21, consumed 22,000 lakh crore units of power, procuring 78 per cent of it from other states. Complicating the state\u2019s task, peak consumption time increased from 6 pm to 11 pm in a year compared to 10 pm before. For the last few weeks, the state has reportedly seen a decline in purchase from other states of around 300-500 MW.<\/p>\n<p>If the crisis persists, the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) may have to purchase power at Rs 18-20 per unit compared to around Rs 6 per unit now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala\u2019s cost for purchasing power could increase two-fold, as it is dependent on other states for at least 75 per cent of its requirement at time when India\u2019s coal stocks are at critical levels. Kerala, in financial year 2020-21, consumed 22,000 lakh crore units of power, procuring 78 per cent of it from other states. Complicating the state\u2019s task, peak consumption time increased from 6 pm to 11 pm in a year compared to 10 pm before. For the last few weeks, the state has reportedly seen a decline in purchase from other states of around 300-500 MW. If the [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441088","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=441088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}