{"id":498449,"date":"2022-06-15T11:30:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=498449"},"modified":"2022-06-15T13:40:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T08:10:30","slug":"govt-may-restart-ntpc-plants-with-imported-gas-as-coal-shortage-looms-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-may-restart-ntpc-plants-with-imported-gas-as-coal-shortage-looms-large\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt may restart NTPC plants with imported gas as coal shortage looms large"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst the fear of a coal supply shortage in the monsoon months, the government is mulling the use of imported gas to restart NTPC plants with a total capacity of more than 5GW to ensure a continuous supply of power, said an Economic Times report. <\/p>\n<p>The electricity produced from imported gas is expected to cost Rs 22-23 per unit, which is four to five times higher than current tariffs. This is seen as a last resort since all available power plants are already running at full capacity to meet the high electricity demands during summer, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst the fear of a coal supply shortage in the monsoon months, the government is mulling the use of imported gas to restart NTPC plants with a total capacity of more than 5GW to ensure a continuous supply of power, said an Economic Times report. The electricity produced from imported gas is expected to cost Rs 22-23 per unit, which is four to five times higher than current tariffs. This is seen as a last resort since all available power plants are already running at full capacity to meet the high electricity demands during summer, officials said.<\/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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498449","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=498449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}