{"id":442280,"date":"2021-10-13T10:51:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T05:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=442280"},"modified":"2021-10-13T12:02:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T06:32:32","slug":"maharashtra-pays-rs-330-crore-for-power-as-deficit-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/maharashtra-pays-rs-330-crore-for-power-as-deficit-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra pays Rs 330 crore for power as deficit rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government has spent more than Rs 330 crore on purchasing electricity from the open market to bridge the demand-supply gap caused by coal shortage. <\/p>\n<p>Energy minister Nitin Raut on Tuesday said the state is facing a shortfall of 3,500-4,000MW of electricity, and blamed the \u201cmismanagement and a lack of planning\u201d on the part of central PSU Coal India Ltd for it. <\/p>\n<p>At present, the state needs 17,500-18,000MW of electricity, and with the soaring October heat, the requirement may go up to 20,000MW. Officials said state-owned power plants have maximum two days\u2019 stock and it\u2019s likely that government may have to go in for load-shedding in some areas if supply doesn\u2019t stabilise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government has spent more than Rs 330 crore on purchasing electricity from the open market to bridge the demand-supply gap caused by coal shortage. Energy minister Nitin Raut on Tuesday said the state is facing a shortfall of 3,500-4,000MW of electricity, and blamed the \u201cmismanagement and a lack of planning\u201d on the part of central PSU Coal India Ltd for it. At present, the state needs 17,500-18,000MW of electricity, and with the soaring October heat, the requirement may go up to 20,000MW. Officials said state-owned power plants have maximum two days\u2019 stock and it\u2019s likely that government [&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-442280","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\/442280","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=442280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}