{"id":441705,"date":"2021-10-12T09:17:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T03:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=441705"},"modified":"2021-10-12T10:08:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T04:38:48","slug":"china-coal-futures-surge-to-record-as-flood-swamps-mine-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/china-coal-futures-surge-to-record-as-flood-swamps-mine-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"China coal futures surge to record as flood swamps mine hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy rains and flooding expanded mine shutdowns in China\u2019s biggest coal-producing region, sending prices to a record and hindering efforts by Beijing to boost energy supplies for winter. <\/p>\n<p>Floods have closed 60 of the 682 coal mines in Shanxi province, a region that has produced 30% of China\u2019s supply of the fuel this year, adding to a worsening energy crisis that threatens the country\u2019s economic growth. <\/p>\n<p>The mine outages are complicating China\u2019s efforts to boost coal output and ensure power supplies for the winter heating season. The powerful State Council on Friday said it will allow higher electricity prices in a bid to boost generation amid the rising costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy rains and flooding expanded mine shutdowns in China\u2019s biggest coal-producing region, sending prices to a record and hindering efforts by Beijing to boost energy supplies for winter. Floods have closed 60 of the 682 coal mines in Shanxi province, a region that has produced 30% of China\u2019s supply of the fuel this year, adding to a worsening energy crisis that threatens the country\u2019s economic growth. The mine outages are complicating China\u2019s efforts to boost coal output and ensure power supplies for the winter heating season. The powerful State Council on Friday said it will allow higher electricity prices 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":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441705","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=441705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}