{"id":300406,"date":"2019-11-11T11:53:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T06:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=300406"},"modified":"2019-11-11T11:53:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T06:23:40","slug":"coal-power-plants-plf-slips-to-below-50-on-falling-electricity-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-power-plants-plf-slips-to-below-50-on-falling-electricity-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal power plants\u2019 PLF slips to below 50% on falling electricity demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Utilisation level of coal power plants \u2014 many of which are already distressed due to lack of adequate demand and coal supply issues \u2014 touched an all-time low in October, with their average plant load factor (PLF) at 48.9% amid falling electricity usage.<\/p>\n<p>Conventional power generating companies are undergoing additional pressure with pan-India electricity demand falling for the third straight month in October, as first reported by FE. From available data, the lowest annual average thermal PLF was recorded at 52.4% in FY86.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utilisation level of coal power plants \u2014 many of which are already distressed due to lack of adequate demand and coal supply issues \u2014 touched an all-time low in October, with their average plant load factor (PLF) at 48.9% amid falling electricity usage. Conventional power generating companies are undergoing additional pressure with pan-India electricity demand falling for the third straight month in October, as first reported by FE. From available data, the lowest annual average thermal PLF was recorded at 52.4% in FY86.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300406","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}