{"id":441405,"date":"2021-10-11T11:11:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T05:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=441405"},"modified":"2021-10-11T12:12:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T06:42:19","slug":"these-states-may-soon-face-a-blackout-as-coal-demands-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/these-states-may-soon-face-a-blackout-as-coal-demands-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"These states may soon face a &#8216;blackout&#8217; as coal demands surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is facing a coal shortage following a sharp rise in the demand for importing power-generation fuels, such as coal, as the economy jumped-started again with the ebbing coronavirus pandemic. And, with the rising demand, the international prices of such fuels also shot up. As a result, India\u2014the world\u2019s second-highest importer, producer and consumer of coal\u2014may face a potential blackout across the country. Many generation units are running coal as low as two days. <\/p>\n<p>Here is a list of states facing an acute coal shortage:<\/p>\n<p>Delhi: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal shot a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday over &#8220;a power crisis&#8221;. &#8220;I am personally keeping a close watch over the situation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is facing a coal shortage following a sharp rise in the demand for importing power-generation fuels, such as coal, as the economy jumped-started again with the ebbing coronavirus pandemic. And, with the rising demand, the international prices of such fuels also shot up. As a result, India\u2014the world\u2019s second-highest importer, producer and consumer of coal\u2014may face a potential blackout across the country. Many generation units are running coal as low as two days. Here is a list of states facing an acute coal shortage: Delhi: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal shot a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on [&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-441405","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\/441405","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=441405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}