{"id":476214,"date":"2026-05-09T10:38:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/476214\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T10:38:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:38:27","slug":"india-power-companies-strained-as-big-users-source-own-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/476214\/","title":{"rendered":"India power companies strained as big users source own electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/energy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Energy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Data centers seek distribution licenses, leaving middlemen heavily indebted<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"20260508 India power\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Engineers work on an electricity pylon on the outskirts of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">BENGALURU &#8212; India&#8217;s state-owned power distribution companies (discoms) face a growing, two-pronged threat to their revenues, with industrial customers going off grid for relatively cheaper power, and data centers and factories buying from private power companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Energy Data centers seek distribution licenses, leaving middlemen heavily indebted Engineers work on an electricity pylon on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[10356,79,6930,179,18,4625,19,387,17,29067,3499,5738,208617,40347],"class_list":{"0":"post-476214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-big","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-companies","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-electricity","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-india","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-own","18":"tag-power","19":"tag-source","20":"tag-strained","21":"tag-users"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116544190171378217","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}