{"id":433171,"date":"2021-08-31T12:38:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T07:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=433171"},"modified":"2021-08-31T12:38:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T07:08:40","slug":"coal-shortage-hits-aluminium-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-shortage-hits-aluminium-makers\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal shortage hits aluminium makers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Just days after the government decided to divert coal supplies to power plants with critically low coal stocks, the Aluminium Association of India (AAI) has written to state-run Coal India seeking the restoration of coal supply to captive power plants (CPP) powering aluminium factories.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cad-hoc decision\u201d to drastically curtail supplies has \u201cbrought the industry to a standstill\u201d, the association said. (We\u2019ve) been left with no time to devise any mitigation plan to continue sustainable operations. Also, resorting to imports at such a short notice is not feasible,\u201d the letter noted, stressing that the CPPs have signed fuel supply agreements with CIL for assured long term coal supplies, and, as a continuous process industry, any disruptions would lead to \u201csevere losses and restart expenses\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Just days after the government decided to divert coal supplies to power plants with critically low coal stocks, the Aluminium Association of India (AAI) has written to state-run Coal India seeking the restoration of coal supply to captive power plants (CPP) powering aluminium factories. The \u201cad-hoc decision\u201d to drastically curtail supplies has \u201cbrought the industry to a standstill\u201d, the association said. (We\u2019ve) been left with no time to devise any mitigation plan to continue sustainable operations. Also, resorting to imports at such a short notice is not feasible,\u201d the letter noted, stressing that the CPPs have signed fuel supply [&hellip;]<\/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":[210,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433171","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=433171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}