{"id":567871,"date":"2023-04-03T12:24:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T06:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=567871"},"modified":"2023-04-03T12:24:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T06:54:54","slug":"best-seeks-short-term-agreements-to-augment-power-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/best-seeks-short-term-agreements-to-augment-power-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"BEST seeks short-term agreements to augment power supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: With the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) fearing a shortfall of 40 to100 megawatts (Mw) from this summer to March 2024, the undertaking has sought immediate short-term agreements with power suppliers.<\/p>\n<p>This shortfall was initially supposed to be met through renewable energy (RE), but this will be possible only from December 2024 onwards. BEST thus approached the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC), which on March 31 passed an order asking it to go in for short-term power procurement from April \u201823 to March \u201924 to meet the shortfall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have an agreement with the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) for procurement of 400 Mw of wind-solar hybrid power at a tariff of \u20b92.48 per unit for 25 years,\u201d explained a senior BEST official. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: With the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) fearing a shortfall of 40 to100 megawatts (Mw) from this summer to March 2024, the undertaking has sought immediate short-term agreements with power suppliers. This shortfall was initially supposed to be met through renewable energy (RE), but this will be possible only from December 2024 onwards. BEST thus approached the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC), which on March 31 passed an order asking it to go in for short-term power procurement from April \u201823 to March \u201924 to meet the shortfall. \u201cWe have an agreement with the Solar Energy Corporation of [&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-567871","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\/567871","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=567871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}