{"id":451969,"date":"2021-11-26T08:50:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T03:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=451969"},"modified":"2021-11-26T09:27:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T03:57:30","slug":"govt-sets-up-committee-for-stable-gas-price-for-power-units-oil-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-sets-up-committee-for-stable-gas-price-for-power-units-oil-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt sets up committee for stable gas price for power units: Oil Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has set up a committee to work out measures need to make natural gas available to power plants at &#8220;reasonably stable prices&#8221;, Oil Secretary Tarun Kapoor said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>India has 24,900 megawatts of gas-based power generation capacity. But of this, 14,305 MW is stranded due to the non-availability of reasonably priced gas. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have set up a committee to look to see how we can make natural gas available to the power sector at a reasonably stable price,&#8221; he said at ETEnergyworld Gas Conclave.<\/p>\n<p>Without giving details of the panel or its report, he said power plants want fuel at &#8220;fairly stable&#8221; price as the electricity they produce is priced at uniform or almost static rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has set up a committee to work out measures need to make natural gas available to power plants at &#8220;reasonably stable prices&#8221;, Oil Secretary Tarun Kapoor said on Thursday. India has 24,900 megawatts of gas-based power generation capacity. But of this, 14,305 MW is stranded due to the non-availability of reasonably priced gas. &#8220;We have set up a committee to look to see how we can make natural gas available to the power sector at a reasonably stable price,&#8221; he said at ETEnergyworld Gas Conclave. Without giving details of the panel or its report, he said power plants [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451969","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=451969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}