{"id":456135,"date":"2021-12-15T10:51:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T05:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=456135"},"modified":"2021-12-15T10:51:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T05:21:52","slug":"renewable-power-cos-dues-surge-47-to-rs-21k-cr-in-1-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/renewable-power-cos-dues-surge-47-to-rs-21k-cr-in-1-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewable power cos\u2019 dues surge 47% to Rs 21k cr in 1 year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Overdues of renewable power producers have swelled 47% to Rs 21,008 crore in December from Rs 14,259 crore a year ago because of continued payment default by state distribution utilities, marking a trend that could punch a hole in India\u2019s climate commitment, which primarily hinges on rapid expansion of green energy capacity.<br \/>\nThe renewable energy overdues make up 21% of pending bills from all generation companies, including thermal power producers in the private and public sector, which is pegged at Rs 98,682 crore against Rs 97,334 crore a year ago. Given the trend, officials said the figure will top Rs 1 lakh crore by month-end.<br \/>\nThermal generation companies account for Rs 75,066 crore of the total overdues. While overdues of private power producers rose 38% to Rs 54,394 crore from Rs 39,152 crore in December 2020, they declined 55% to Rs 20,672 crore from Rs 46,969 crore for government generators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Overdues of renewable power producers have swelled 47% to Rs 21,008 crore in December from Rs 14,259 crore a year ago because of continued payment default by state distribution utilities, marking a trend that could punch a hole in India\u2019s climate commitment, which primarily hinges on rapid expansion of green energy capacity. The renewable energy overdues make up 21% of pending bills from all generation companies, including thermal power producers in the private and public sector, which is pegged at Rs 98,682 crore against Rs 97,334 crore a year ago. Given the trend, officials said the figure will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"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-456135","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\/456135","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}