Centre plans to hook up states to idle power plants - Economic Times

The medium-term contract is expected to be for five years while the tenure for the long-term ones has been reduced to 15 years from 25 years earlier.

The Centre is likely to offer about 8 GW of electricity to states for the medium to long term from projects that are idling as they don't have coal linkages or purchase tie-ups, said people with know… [+1499 chars]

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