{"id":439138,"date":"2021-09-30T08:20:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T02:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=439138"},"modified":"2021-09-30T09:32:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T04:02:21","slug":"china-looks-at-hiking-industrial-power-price-to-ease-supply-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/china-looks-at-hiking-industrial-power-price-to-ease-supply-crunch\/","title":{"rendered":"China looks at hiking industrial power price to ease supply crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese government is considering raising power prices for industrial consumers to help ease a growing supply crunch.<\/p>\n<p>The rate hikes for factories could come in the form of higher flat fees, or in rates that are linked to the price of coal, according to people familiar with the details of the plan. <\/p>\n<p>The government has also discussed raising rates for residential users if the industrial increases aren\u2019t enough to solve the crisis, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information isn\u2019t public. The plans may still be changed and are subject to final approval, the people said.<\/p>\n<p>The discussions are coming as the world\u2019s second-biggest economy faces power shortages that are threatening to slow growth and further strain global supply chains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese government is considering raising power prices for industrial consumers to help ease a growing supply crunch. The rate hikes for factories could come in the form of higher flat fees, or in rates that are linked to the price of coal, according to people familiar with the details of the plan. The government has also discussed raising rates for residential users if the industrial increases aren\u2019t enough to solve the crisis, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information isn\u2019t public. The plans may still be changed and are subject to final approval, the [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439138","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=439138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}