{"id":352046,"date":"2020-05-19T11:27:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T05:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=352046"},"modified":"2020-05-19T11:27:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T05:57:03","slug":"coal-fired-power-plf-touch-all-time-low-of-42-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-fired-power-plf-touch-all-time-low-of-42-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal-fired power PLF touch all-time low of 42% in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The utilisation level of coal-based power plants touched an all-time low in April, with their average plant load factor (PLF) standing at 41.9%, down from 63.1% in April 2019, amid falling electricity usage during the lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>PLF of private thermal power plants fell to 44% last month, nearly 14 percentage points lower than April 2019. The same for plants run by central government firms fell 22.6 percentage points year-on-year (y-o-y) to 49.9% in April. Average thermal PLF for NTPC plants was 54.9% in April, sharply declining from 75.9% recorded in the same month last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The utilisation level of coal-based power plants touched an all-time low in April, with their average plant load factor (PLF) standing at 41.9%, down from 63.1% in April 2019, amid falling electricity usage during the lockdown. PLF of private thermal power plants fell to 44% last month, nearly 14 percentage points lower than April 2019. The same for plants run by central government firms fell 22.6 percentage points year-on-year (y-o-y) to 49.9% in April. Average thermal PLF for NTPC plants was 54.9% in April, sharply declining from 75.9% recorded in the same month last year.<\/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-352046","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\/352046","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=352046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}