{"id":440540,"date":"2021-10-06T10:57:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T05:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=440540"},"modified":"2021-10-06T11:51:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T06:21:45","slug":"coal-shortage-beyond-usual-situation-touch-and-go-power-minister-rk-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-shortage-beyond-usual-situation-touch-and-go-power-minister-rk-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal shortage beyond usual, situation touch and go: Power Minister RK Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the economy recovers from pandemic blows, a sharp surge in energy demand has triggered an unprecedented fuel shortage at the country\u2019s coal-fired stations, a situation that Union Power Minister R K Singh terms way \u201cbeyond\u201d the normal post-monsoon supply crunch.<\/p>\n<p>While there is expectation that the demand could start tapering off from the latter half of October, Singh said the bridging of the fuel gap is still likely to be a \u201ctouch and go\u201d affair and that he is bracing for a trying \u201cnext five-six months\u201d. \u201cI can\u2019t say I am secure\u2026 If you have 40,000-50,000 MW (of thermal capacity) with less than three days of stock, you can\u2019t be secure,\u201d Singh told The Indian Express in an interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the economy recovers from pandemic blows, a sharp surge in energy demand has triggered an unprecedented fuel shortage at the country\u2019s coal-fired stations, a situation that Union Power Minister R K Singh terms way \u201cbeyond\u201d the normal post-monsoon supply crunch. While there is expectation that the demand could start tapering off from the latter half of October, Singh said the bridging of the fuel gap is still likely to be a \u201ctouch and go\u201d affair and that he is bracing for a trying \u201cnext five-six months\u201d. \u201cI can\u2019t say I am secure\u2026 If you have 40,000-50,000 MW (of thermal [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440540","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=440540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}