{"id":273448,"date":"2019-05-08T06:10:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T06:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=273448"},"modified":"2019-05-08T06:16:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T06:16:09","slug":"poor-demand-fall-in-energy-intensity-choking-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/poor-demand-fall-in-energy-intensity-choking-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor demand, fall in energy intensity choking coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the annual addition of thermal power capacity over the last few years is any indication, coal seems to be losing its mojo. <\/p>\n<p>In 2018-19, the country added only a fourth of the capacity it did in 2015-16. Capacity addition for the year fell short of the target (of 7,266 MW) by a good 20 per cent. And, by all counts, this trend is likely to continue in the near future. <\/p>\n<p>The trend is hardly surprising. Given that existing coal-based power projects are running at less than 65 per cent of their capacity, there are bound to be few takers for new ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the annual addition of thermal power capacity over the last few years is any indication, coal seems to be losing its mojo. In 2018-19, the country added only a fourth of the capacity it did in 2015-16. Capacity addition for the year fell short of the target (of 7,266 MW) by a good 20 per cent. And, by all counts, this trend is likely to continue in the near future. The trend is hardly surprising. Given that existing coal-based power projects are running at less than 65 per cent of their capacity, there are bound to be few takers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273448","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}