{"id":551219,"date":"2023-01-31T10:58:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T05:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=551219"},"modified":"2023-01-31T10:58:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T05:28:05","slug":"new-coal-blending-order-to-raise-discoms-cost-by-rs-11000-crore-in-first-half-of-fy24-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/new-coal-blending-order-to-raise-discoms-cost-by-rs-11000-crore-in-first-half-of-fy24-report\/","title":{"rendered":"New coal blending order to raise discoms&#8217; cost by Rs 11,000 crore in first half of FY24: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government directive mandating power producers to increase blending of imported coal to 6 per cent of their requirement until September will add up to Rs 11,000 crore towards power purchase cost for distribution companies, a report said. At the present blending rate of 5.4 per cent applicable this fiscal, the distribution companies or discoms will incur an additional Rs 42,000 crore on their power purchase bills this fiscal as this has pushed up the variable cost of power procurement for utilities by Rs 0.226 per unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government directive mandating power producers to increase blending of imported coal to 6 per cent of their requirement until September will add up to Rs 11,000 crore towards power purchase cost for distribution companies, a report said. At the present blending rate of 5.4 per cent applicable this fiscal, the distribution companies or discoms will incur an additional Rs 42,000 crore on their power purchase bills this fiscal as this has pushed up the variable cost of power procurement for utilities by Rs 0.226 per unit.<\/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":[194,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551219","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=551219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}