{"id":548564,"date":"2023-01-19T12:44:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T07:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=548564"},"modified":"2023-01-19T12:44:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T07:14:03","slug":"power-generationup-not-to-import-coal-despite-centres-directions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-generationup-not-to-import-coal-despite-centres-directions\/","title":{"rendered":"Power generation:UP not to import coal despite Centre\u2019s directions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUCKNOW The Centre\u2019s fresh directions notwithstanding, Uttar Pradesh has decided not to import expensive foreign coal for power generation, pleading that its thermal plants have adequate stock of domestic coal to remain operational in the months to come, said officials aware of the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The UP Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd (Uprvunl), a government-owned entity owning several thermal plants in the state, has already written to the state government, briefing it on the sufficient availability of domestic coal with no further requirement for coal imports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the light of the Union power ministry\u2019s latest directions for import of coal, we have informed the state government that the Utpadan Nigam\u2019s thermal plants have coal reserves to the tune of 14 lakh tonnes while another 10 lakh tonnes of domestic coal will be transported to the plants through RCR mode by June,\u201d a senior official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUCKNOW The Centre\u2019s fresh directions notwithstanding, Uttar Pradesh has decided not to import expensive foreign coal for power generation, pleading that its thermal plants have adequate stock of domestic coal to remain operational in the months to come, said officials aware of the issue. The UP Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd (Uprvunl), a government-owned entity owning several thermal plants in the state, has already written to the state government, briefing it on the sufficient availability of domestic coal with no further requirement for coal imports. \u201cIn the light of the Union power ministry\u2019s latest directions for import of coal, we [&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-548564","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\/548564","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=548564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}