{"id":418205,"date":"2021-06-02T10:37:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T05:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=418205"},"modified":"2021-06-02T11:20:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T05:50:02","slug":"coal-india-ltd-records-55-mt-fuel-offtake-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-india-ltd-records-55-mt-fuel-offtake-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal India Ltd records 55 mt fuel offtake in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: State-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) saw 55 million tonne (mt) offtake of the fossil fuel, a record, in May due to higher demand from the power sector.<\/p>\n<p>Supplies were 38% higher year-on-year, when electricity demand had dipped during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven compared to pre-Covid May\u201919 the growth was 5.8% when the company\u2019s off-take was 52 MTs,&#8221; CIL said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s power sector is the largest consumer of coal in the country, with CIL being the largest coal miner. Coal-fuelled electricity generation remains the mainstay of India\u2019s power mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: State-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) saw 55 million tonne (mt) offtake of the fossil fuel, a record, in May due to higher demand from the power sector. Supplies were 38% higher year-on-year, when electricity demand had dipped during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. \u201cEven compared to pre-Covid May\u201919 the growth was 5.8% when the company\u2019s off-take was 52 MTs,&#8221; CIL said in a statement. India\u2019s power sector is the largest consumer of coal in the country, with CIL being the largest coal miner. Coal-fuelled electricity generation remains the mainstay of India\u2019s power mix.<\/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":[190,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418205","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=418205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}