{"id":346062,"date":"2020-04-09T10:16:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T04:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=346062"},"modified":"2020-04-09T10:39:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T05:09:01","slug":"covid-19-impact-ind-ra-sees-thermal-plfs-falling-below-55-for-fy21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-19-impact-ind-ra-sees-thermal-plfs-falling-below-55-for-fy21\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 impact: Ind-Ra sees thermal PLFs falling below 55% for FY21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India Ratings and Research estimates that the coronavirus pandemic could lead to the thermal plant load factor (PLF) falling below 55 per cent for FY21, closer to the technical minimum standards.<\/p>\n<p>This would be due to a gradual ramp-up in industrial load and the already muted electricity demand witnessed in the pre-Covid scenario.<\/p>\n<p>Electricity demand during 11 months in FY20 grew by a mere 2.1 per cent year-on-year (YoY), while the loss of industrial load during the latter half of March 2020 has resulted in further moderation in electricity demand growth.<\/p>\n<p>However, the same is unlikely to impact the fixed cost recovery of power plants, as most of them are sitting on a healthy stock of coal, which allows for capacity declaration for fixed cost recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India Ratings and Research estimates that the coronavirus pandemic could lead to the thermal plant load factor (PLF) falling below 55 per cent for FY21, closer to the technical minimum standards. This would be due to a gradual ramp-up in industrial load and the already muted electricity demand witnessed in the pre-Covid scenario. Electricity demand during 11 months in FY20 grew by a mere 2.1 per cent year-on-year (YoY), while the loss of industrial load during the latter half of March 2020 has resulted in further moderation in electricity demand growth. However, the same is unlikely to impact the fixed [&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-346062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346062","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=346062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}