{"id":441337,"date":"2021-10-11T10:34:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T05:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=441337"},"modified":"2021-10-11T11:45:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T06:15:04","slug":"coal-shortage-hits-power-production-in-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-shortage-hits-power-production-in-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal shortage hits power production in UP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The electricity crisis in Uttar Pradesh is deepening with the countrywide coal shortage hitting power generation in the state. Consequently, UP\u2019s share in the power from the Central pool also stands reduced, people dealing with the issue said. <\/p>\n<p>Due to the coal shortage, the state is already losing around 8,000 MW of power. As a result, the demand-supply gap has increased to around 4,000 MW in the state even as the demand continues to be more than 20,000 MW.<\/p>\n<p>The UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) is trying to manage things by resorting to additional power cuts of six hours in rural and semi-urban areas that are getting power supply for only 12 hours a day these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The electricity crisis in Uttar Pradesh is deepening with the countrywide coal shortage hitting power generation in the state. Consequently, UP\u2019s share in the power from the Central pool also stands reduced, people dealing with the issue said. Due to the coal shortage, the state is already losing around 8,000 MW of power. As a result, the demand-supply gap has increased to around 4,000 MW in the state even as the demand continues to be more than 20,000 MW. The UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) is trying to manage things by resorting to additional power cuts of six hours in [&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-441337","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\/441337","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=441337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}