{"id":635732,"date":"2024-02-22T11:40:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T06:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=635732"},"modified":"2024-02-22T11:40:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T06:10:52","slug":"torrent-power-lanco-emerge-as-lowest-bidders-in-gas-fired-power-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/torrent-power-lanco-emerge-as-lowest-bidders-in-gas-fired-power-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Torrent Power, Lanco emerge as lowest bidders in gas-fired power auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Torrent Power and Lanco Group were among the companies emerging as the lowest bidders in an auction to supply natural gas-fired power during periods of unusually high electricity use, a document reviewed by Reuters showed.<\/p>\n<p>India relies on coal to generate about three-quarters of its electricity, and power generated from coal is typically much cheaper than that generated by gas-fired plants. Over half of the country&#8217;s roughly 25 gigawatts (GW) of gas-fired capacity is non-operational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Torrent Power and Lanco Group were among the companies emerging as the lowest bidders in an auction to supply natural gas-fired power during periods of unusually high electricity use, a document reviewed by Reuters showed. India relies on coal to generate about three-quarters of its electricity, and power generated from coal is typically much cheaper than that generated by gas-fired plants. Over half of the country&#8217;s roughly 25 gigawatts (GW) of gas-fired capacity is non-operational.<\/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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635732","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=635732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}