The government may start using imported gas to restart NTPC plants with a total capacity of more than 5 GW to supply power during the monsoon, as coal supplies are likely to fall short because of slow mining, a media report said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
According to The Economic Times report, the imported gas-produced electricity could cost Rs 22-23 per unit, pegged at about four-five times current tariffs.<\/p>\n
The ET reported that despite the highest-ever tariff, it is the last resort since all available power plants are running at full throttle to meet the high electricity demand amid heatwave conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The government may start using imported gas to restart NTPC plants with a total capacity of more than 5 GW to supply power during the monsoon, as coal supplies are likely to fall short because of slow mining, a media report said Tuesday. According to The Economic Times report, the imported gas-produced electricity could cost Rs 22-23 per unit, pegged at about four-five times current tariffs. The ET reported that despite the highest-ever tariff, it is the last resort since all available power plants are running at full throttle to meet the high electricity demand amid heatwave conditions.<\/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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498263","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=498263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}