{"id":440506,"date":"2021-10-06T10:15:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T04:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=440506"},"modified":"2021-10-06T11:21:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T05:51:29","slug":"what-explains-the-supply-crunch-in-indias-coal-fuelled-power-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/what-explains-the-supply-crunch-in-indias-coal-fuelled-power-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"What explains the supply crunch in India\u2019s coal-fuelled power plants?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s coal-fuelled power plants, which account for more than half (52.4%) of the country\u2019s total installed capacity of 386.88 gigawatt (GW), are facing a crisis. As many as 72 coal-fuelled power projects have almost exhausted their coal stocks, a Mint report said on October 4. <\/p>\n<p>About 50 plants have coal stocks ranging from 4-10 days, and 13 projects have coal stocks to sustain electricity generation for just over 10 days. State-owned Coal India Limited, the largest producer, has assured that it is doing all it can to avert a crisis. <\/p>\n<p>However, it is worth asking what led to a supply crunch in the world\u2019s second-largest producer of coal in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s coal-fuelled power plants, which account for more than half (52.4%) of the country\u2019s total installed capacity of 386.88 gigawatt (GW), are facing a crisis. As many as 72 coal-fuelled power projects have almost exhausted their coal stocks, a Mint report said on October 4. About 50 plants have coal stocks ranging from 4-10 days, and 13 projects have coal stocks to sustain electricity generation for just over 10 days. State-owned Coal India Limited, the largest producer, has assured that it is doing all it can to avert a crisis. However, it is worth asking what led to a supply [&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":[186,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440506","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=440506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}