{"id":498106,"date":"2022-06-14T11:52:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T06:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=498106"},"modified":"2022-06-14T11:52:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T06:22:58","slug":"govt-may-restart-ntpc-plants-on-imported-gas-amid-coal-shortage-fears-during-monsoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-may-restart-ntpc-plants-on-imported-gas-amid-coal-shortage-fears-during-monsoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt may restart NTPC plants on imported gas amid coal shortage fears during monsoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The government is considering the use of imported gas to restart NTPC NSE 1.95 % plants with a total capacity of more than 5 GW to supply power during the monsoon months, worried that coal supplies may fall short as rains slow mining.<\/p>\n<p>The imported gas-produced electricity could cost \u20b922-23 per unit, pegged at about four-five times current tariffs. This would be the highest-ever tariff but the last resort since all available power plants are running at full throttle to meet the high electricity demand amid hot weather conditions, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The government is considering the use of imported gas to restart NTPC NSE 1.95 % plants with a total capacity of more than 5 GW to supply power during the monsoon months, worried that coal supplies may fall short as rains slow mining. The imported gas-produced electricity could cost \u20b922-23 per unit, pegged at about four-five times current tariffs. This would be the highest-ever tariff but the last resort since all available power plants are running at full throttle to meet the high electricity demand amid hot weather conditions, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498106","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}