{"id":293873,"date":"2019-09-26T11:39:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T06:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=293873"},"modified":"2019-09-26T11:47:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T06:17:48","slug":"declining-coal-production-could-impact-future-thermal-plant-load-factor-says-india-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/declining-coal-production-could-impact-future-thermal-plant-load-factor-says-india-ratings\/","title":{"rendered":"Declining coal production could impact future thermal plant load factor, says India Ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The All-India thermal plant load factor (PLF) fell to 51% in August 2019 (August 2018: 55.5%), due to decrease in central, state and private sector PLF by 700bp, 70bp and 80bp, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>All-India energy demand and supply decreased 1.6% yoy and 1.3% yoy in August 2019, respectively, resulting in a decline in energy deficit to 0.2% (August 2018: 0.6%). The steep decrease in central sector PLF was majorly due to decrease in PLF of NTPC Limited (\u2018IND AAA\u2019\/Stable) on account of coal shortage at its Talcher plant.<\/p>\n<p>The coal inventory at thermal power stations rose 46.8% yoy to 21.6 mt in August 2019, however, declined 11.1% mom due to lower coal production, according to India Ratings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All-India thermal plant load factor (PLF) fell to 51% in August 2019 (August 2018: 55.5%), due to decrease in central, state and private sector PLF by 700bp, 70bp and 80bp, respectively. All-India energy demand and supply decreased 1.6% yoy and 1.3% yoy in August 2019, respectively, resulting in a decline in energy deficit to 0.2% (August 2018: 0.6%). The steep decrease in central sector PLF was majorly due to decrease in PLF of NTPC Limited (\u2018IND AAA\u2019\/Stable) on account of coal shortage at its Talcher plant. The coal inventory at thermal power stations rose 46.8% yoy to 21.6 mt [&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-293873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293873","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=293873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}