{"id":439167,"date":"2021-09-30T08:39:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T03:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=439167"},"modified":"2021-09-30T09:41:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T04:11:52","slug":"coal-india-to-ramp-up-supplies-to-address-utilities-fuel-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-india-to-ramp-up-supplies-to-address-utilities-fuel-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal India to ramp up supplies to address utilities&#8217; fuel shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-run Coal India said on Wednesday it will ramp up supplies to utilities to address a coal shortage that has left most of the country&#8217;s power plants close to running out of fuel when electricity demand is increasing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despatches to coal-fired plants from October onwards are aimed at 1.5 million tonnes per day and beyond 1.6 million tonnes in due course,&#8221; the miner, which accounts for over 80% of India&#8217;s coal output said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s federal power ministry over a month ago flagged a coal shortage driven by rising electricity demand, and has convened emergency meetings with stakeholders to address challenges, but the coal deficit has widened not shrunk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-run Coal India said on Wednesday it will ramp up supplies to utilities to address a coal shortage that has left most of the country&#8217;s power plants close to running out of fuel when electricity demand is increasing. &#8220;Despatches to coal-fired plants from October onwards are aimed at 1.5 million tonnes per day and beyond 1.6 million tonnes in due course,&#8221; the miner, which accounts for over 80% of India&#8217;s coal output said in a statement. India&#8217;s federal power ministry over a month ago flagged a coal shortage driven by rising electricity demand, and has convened emergency meetings with stakeholders [&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-439167","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\/439167","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=439167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}