{"id":536599,"date":"2022-11-17T11:32:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T06:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=536599"},"modified":"2022-11-17T11:32:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T06:02:39","slug":"govt-proposes-pool-of-old-thermal-power-units-to-balance-more-renewable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-proposes-pool-of-old-thermal-power-units-to-balance-more-renewable\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt proposes pool of old thermal power units to balance more renewable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Ministry of Power has proposed creating a pool of efficient thermal power units that are more than 25 years old to act as a balancing source for the increasing share of renewable energy in the electricity grid.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes in the wake of several states\/power distribution companies (discoms) relinquishing costlier power purchase agreements (PPAs) seeing that they have surplus power and want to increase their renewable energy purchase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Ministry of Power has proposed creating a pool of efficient thermal power units that are more than 25 years old to act as a balancing source for the increasing share of renewable energy in the electricity grid. The move comes in the wake of several states\/power distribution companies (discoms) relinquishing costlier power purchase agreements (PPAs) seeing that they have surplus power and want to increase their renewable energy purchase.<\/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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536599","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\/536599","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=536599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}