{"id":345882,"date":"2020-04-08T10:53:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T05:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=345882"},"modified":"2020-04-08T10:53:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T05:23:51","slug":"electricity-generators-refusing-to-lift-coal-as-power-demand-falls-due-to-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/electricity-generators-refusing-to-lift-coal-as-power-demand-falls-due-to-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity generators refusing to lift coal as power demand falls due to lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forty thermal power units with a capacity of at least 30 gigawatt, mostly from northern India, have stopped lifting coal as demand has fallen sharply during the lockdown. This has led to an increase in stocks at pitheads by nearly 20 million tonnes to about 75 million tonnes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany electricity generators have officially asked us to stop supplying,\u201d a senior Coal IndiaNSE 0.25 % Limited (CIL) executive told ET on condition of anonymity. \u201cSome are not filing their rake requirements with railways, leading to non-allotment and no supplies. For others, the turnaround time of rakes has increased considerably, leading to lesser supplies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty thermal power units with a capacity of at least 30 gigawatt, mostly from northern India, have stopped lifting coal as demand has fallen sharply during the lockdown. This has led to an increase in stocks at pitheads by nearly 20 million tonnes to about 75 million tonnes. \u201cMany electricity generators have officially asked us to stop supplying,\u201d a senior Coal IndiaNSE 0.25 % Limited (CIL) executive told ET on condition of anonymity. \u201cSome are not filing their rake requirements with railways, leading to non-allotment and no supplies. For others, the turnaround time of rakes has increased considerably, leading to [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345882","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=345882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}