{"id":483686,"date":"2022-04-11T12:06:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T06:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=483686"},"modified":"2022-04-11T12:06:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T06:36:58","slug":"cabinet-approves-purchase-of-additional-power-to-meet-surging-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cabinet-approves-purchase-of-additional-power-to-meet-surging-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet approves purchase of additional power to meet surging demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The state cabinet on Friday cleared the decks for the state power distribution utility to the procure 760 MW of power to augment the short term supply. Maharashtra is facing a shortfall of up to 1,000 MW in electricity supply due to a spike in demand and low generation owing to a shortage of coal.<\/p>\n<p>The state cabinet authorised the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) to sign short-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) to avoid load shedding. \u201cThe cabinet has allowed the MSEDCL to decide on these PPAs,\u201d a senior state government official told HT.<\/p>\n<p>This, the official added, will clear the way for the state-owned electricity distribution utility to sign a short term PPA with the Coastal Gujarat Power Limited (CGPL Mundra) project for purchasing 760 MW of power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The state cabinet on Friday cleared the decks for the state power distribution utility to the procure 760 MW of power to augment the short term supply. Maharashtra is facing a shortfall of up to 1,000 MW in electricity supply due to a spike in demand and low generation owing to a shortage of coal. The state cabinet authorised the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) to sign short-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) to avoid load shedding. \u201cThe cabinet has allowed the MSEDCL to decide on these PPAs,\u201d a senior state government official told HT. This, the official [&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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483686","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=483686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}