{"id":433685,"date":"2021-09-02T11:25:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T05:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=433685"},"modified":"2021-09-02T13:17:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T07:47:44","slug":"india-asks-utilities-to-import-coal-amid-short-supply-as-demand-spikes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-asks-utilities-to-import-coal-amid-short-supply-as-demand-spikes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"India asks utilities to import coal amid short supply as demand spikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: India has urged utilities to import coal despite having the world&#8217;s fourth-largest reserves, with several power plants on the verge of running out of fuel due to a surge in power demand. <\/p>\n<p>Coal-fired power accounts for more than 70% of electricity generation. Electricity generation makes up three-fourths of coal consumption. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thermal power plants, which may import coal for blending, may explore (ways) to enhance imports of coal to tide over the current crisis,&#8221; the power ministry said in an August 30 notice seen by Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>Data from the Central Electricity Authority showed over half of the 135 coal-fired power plants had less than a week&#8217;s supply of coal left, of which 50 plants had fewer than three days of coal left. Six plants had run out of coal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: India has urged utilities to import coal despite having the world&#8217;s fourth-largest reserves, with several power plants on the verge of running out of fuel due to a surge in power demand. Coal-fired power accounts for more than 70% of electricity generation. Electricity generation makes up three-fourths of coal consumption. &#8220;Thermal power plants, which may import coal for blending, may explore (ways) to enhance imports of coal to tide over the current crisis,&#8221; the power ministry said in an August 30 notice seen by Reuters. Data from the Central Electricity Authority showed over half of the 135 coal-fired power [&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":[222,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433685","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=433685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}