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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

Published Mon, Sep 7, 2015 · 09:50 PM
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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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