{"id":432912,"date":"2021-08-31T08:46:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T03:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=432912"},"modified":"2021-08-31T09:30:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T04:00:29","slug":"ntpc-plans-to-ramp-up-coal-supply-as-shortage-hits-thermal-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ntpc-plans-to-ramp-up-coal-supply-as-shortage-hits-thermal-units\/","title":{"rendered":"NTPC plans to ramp up coal supply as shortage hits thermal units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As thermal power generation units across the country grapple with coal shortage, India&#8217;s largest power generator NTPC is looking at several methods to augment supply to states. It is also relying on gas-run units to improve power supply in the middle of a coal shortage.<\/p>\n<p>NTPC, however, added sta\u00adtes were not scheduling po\u00adwer from gas-based stations but were drawing from the grid. Gas-run power units sell power at higher rates than coal, hydro and renewable energy units as most rely on imported gas. As on August 29, the peak power demand stood at 173 Gw while the peak shortage was 201 Mw. In energy consumption terms, de\u00admand was 4,032 million un\u00adits (MUs) while the deficit stood at 24 MUs (on Saturday).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As thermal power generation units across the country grapple with coal shortage, India&#8217;s largest power generator NTPC is looking at several methods to augment supply to states. It is also relying on gas-run units to improve power supply in the middle of a coal shortage. NTPC, however, added sta\u00adtes were not scheduling po\u00adwer from gas-based stations but were drawing from the grid. Gas-run power units sell power at higher rates than coal, hydro and renewable energy units as most rely on imported gas. As on August 29, the peak power demand stood at 173 Gw while the peak shortage was [&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":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432912","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=432912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}