{"id":640450,"date":"2024-04-02T12:17:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T06:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=640450"},"modified":"2024-04-02T12:17:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T06:47:05","slug":"telangana-govt-not-to-sign-power-deal-with-ntpc-to-cushion-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/telangana-govt-not-to-sign-power-deal-with-ntpc-to-cushion-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Telangana govt not to sign power deal with NTPC to cushion consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: The state government has reportedly decided against signing the power purchase agreement (PPA) for NTPC-Ramagundam Phase-2 (3X800MW), citing projected power costs of Rs 8 to Rs 9 per unit, which could burden the consumers. Instead, the government is planning to develop green energy sources such as solar, hydel and wind, which are expected to offer more cost-effective alternatives to the power from NTPC-Ramagundam. The Congress-led state government has blamed the previous BRS government for not signing the PPA for the second phase of NTPC in the last 10 years, which could lead to a rise in construction costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: The state government has reportedly decided against signing the power purchase agreement (PPA) for NTPC-Ramagundam Phase-2 (3X800MW), citing projected power costs of Rs 8 to Rs 9 per unit, which could burden the consumers. Instead, the government is planning to develop green energy sources such as solar, hydel and wind, which are expected to offer more cost-effective alternatives to the power from NTPC-Ramagundam. The Congress-led state government has blamed the previous BRS government for not signing the PPA for the second phase of NTPC in the last 10 years, which could lead to a rise in construction costs.<\/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":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640450","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=640450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}