{"id":373989,"date":"2020-09-17T11:28:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T05:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=373989"},"modified":"2020-09-17T12:44:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T07:14:08","slug":"thermal-power-generation-rises-9-4-in-1st-half-of-sept-as-industrial-use-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/thermal-power-generation-rises-9-4-in-1st-half-of-sept-as-industrial-use-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"Thermal power generation rises 9.4% in 1st half of Sept as industrial use rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI : India&#8217;s coal-fired electricity generation rose 9.4% in the first half of September, provisional government data showed, as demand from industrial western states rose for the first time since coronavirus lockdowns were enforced.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s overall electricity generation rose 1.6% during the first 15 days of September, a Reuters analysis of daily load despatch data from federal grid operator POSOCO showed, driven by higher consumption by states such as Maharashtra and Gujarat.<\/p>\n<p>Coal-fired electricity generation accounted for 70% of India&#8217;s power output in 2019, according to India&#8217;s Central Electricity Authority. The share of the fuel in power generation fell to as low as 60% during the coronavirus lockdowns, as use of renewable energy for electricity generation rose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI : India&#8217;s coal-fired electricity generation rose 9.4% in the first half of September, provisional government data showed, as demand from industrial western states rose for the first time since coronavirus lockdowns were enforced. The country&#8217;s overall electricity generation rose 1.6% during the first 15 days of September, a Reuters analysis of daily load despatch data from federal grid operator POSOCO showed, driven by higher consumption by states such as Maharashtra and Gujarat. Coal-fired electricity generation accounted for 70% of India&#8217;s power output in 2019, according to India&#8217;s Central Electricity Authority. The share of the fuel in power generation fell [&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":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373989","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=373989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}