{"id":433031,"date":"2021-08-31T11:41:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T06:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=433031"},"modified":"2021-08-31T11:41:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T06:11:17","slug":"government-asks-power-generating-companies-to-consider-coal-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/government-asks-power-generating-companies-to-consider-coal-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"Government asks power generating companies to consider coal imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government late on Friday asked power generating companies to consider coal imports, citing critically low fuel stocks at projects with a capacity of 90 GW. Increased electricity demand coupled with less hydropower and wind generation has put pressure on coal-fired plants.<\/p>\n<p>The high price of imported coal, limited gas availability for power plants and heavy rain in coal-producing areas have added to the woes. The extent of low coal stock at such a large power capacity is unprecedented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government late on Friday asked power generating companies to consider coal imports, citing critically low fuel stocks at projects with a capacity of 90 GW. Increased electricity demand coupled with less hydropower and wind generation has put pressure on coal-fired plants. The high price of imported coal, limited gas availability for power plants and heavy rain in coal-producing areas have added to the woes. The extent of low coal stock at such a large power capacity is unprecedented.<\/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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433031","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=433031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}