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India's oldest coal-fired plants ordered to help solar farms
The plants told to bundle cheaper coal power with the more expensive solar energy for sale to the grid
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Mon, Sep 7, 2015 · 09:50 PM
New Delhi
PRIME Minister Narendra Modi's government has ordered some of India's oldest coal-fired power plants to help make solar farms more competitive by bundling together electricity from both technologies for sale to the grid.
The decision dated July 17 requires state-controlled NTPC Ltd to sell cheaper coal power along with more expensive solar as a single unit.
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