{"id":440556,"date":"2021-10-06T11:53:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T06:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=440556"},"modified":"2021-10-06T11:53:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T06:23:37","slug":"energy-crisis-deepens-in-india-just-four-days-of-coal-reserves-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/energy-crisis-deepens-in-india-just-four-days-of-coal-reserves-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy crisis deepens in India; just four days of coal reserves left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The worsening squeeze on India\u2019s coal supply is triggering a power crisis that\u2019s threatening to stall the world\u2019s fastest-expanding major economy.<br \/>\nCoal-fired power stations had an average of four days\u2019 worth of stock of the fuel at the end of last month, the lowest level in years, and down from 13 days at the start of August. More than half the plants are on alert for outages.<\/p>\n<p>With coal used to produce almost 70% of electricity, spot power rates have surged, while supplies of the fuel are being diverted away from key customers including aluminum smelters and steel mills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The worsening squeeze on India\u2019s coal supply is triggering a power crisis that\u2019s threatening to stall the world\u2019s fastest-expanding major economy. Coal-fired power stations had an average of four days\u2019 worth of stock of the fuel at the end of last month, the lowest level in years, and down from 13 days at the start of August. More than half the plants are on alert for outages. With coal used to produce almost 70% of electricity, spot power rates have surged, while supplies of the fuel are being diverted away from key customers including aluminum smelters and steel mills.<\/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-440556","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\/440556","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=440556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}