{"id":369355,"date":"2020-08-22T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=369355"},"modified":"2020-08-22T11:30:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T06:00:56","slug":"coronavirus-hits-indian-electricity-demand-capacity-addition-fitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coronavirus-hits-indian-electricity-demand-capacity-addition-fitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus hits Indian electricity demand, capacity addition: Fitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Fitch Ratings expects India&#8217;s electricity demand to drop by 4 per cent during the financial year ending March 2021 given the expectations of only a gradual pick-up in economic activity since pandemic-related lockdowns were relaxed in June.<\/p>\n<p>The fall in demand is likely to result in lower load factors, mainly for coal-based power plants. The weak demand along with higher coal inventory led to India&#8217;s coal imports falling by 22 per cent year-on-year in H1 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Fitch Ratings expects India&#8217;s electricity demand to drop by 4 per cent during the financial year ending March 2021 given the expectations of only a gradual pick-up in economic activity since pandemic-related lockdowns were relaxed in June. The fall in demand is likely to result in lower load factors, mainly for coal-based power plants. The weak demand along with higher coal inventory led to India&#8217;s coal imports falling by 22 per cent year-on-year in H1 20.<\/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":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369355","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=369355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}