{"id":440553,"date":"2021-10-06T11:53:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T06:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=440553"},"modified":"2021-10-06T11:53:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T06:23:10","slug":"coal-shortage-beyond-normal-situation-may-not-ease-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-shortage-beyond-normal-situation-may-not-ease-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal shortage &#8216;beyond normal&#8217;, situation may not ease soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sharp increase in energy demand as the economy opened up post pandemic restrictions is causing a &#8220;beyond normal&#8221; shortage of coal in the country which could last as long as six months.<\/p>\n<p>Union Power Minister R K Singh told the Indian Express that bridging the gap between available coal and the coal needed to fire power stations would be a &#8220;touch and go&#8221; till then, though the demand is likely to come down after mid October with cooler weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sharp increase in energy demand as the economy opened up post pandemic restrictions is causing a &#8220;beyond normal&#8221; shortage of coal in the country which could last as long as six months. Union Power Minister R K Singh told the Indian Express that bridging the gap between available coal and the coal needed to fire power stations would be a &#8220;touch and go&#8221; till then, though the demand is likely to come down after mid October with cooler weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440553","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}