{"id":442767,"date":"2021-10-16T08:52:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T03:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=442767"},"modified":"2021-10-16T09:48:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T04:18:24","slug":"coal-india-halts-supply-to-non-power-users-hitting-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-india-halts-supply-to-non-power-users-hitting-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal India halts supply to non-power users, hitting industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-run Coal India Ltd on Thursday said it had temporarily stopped supplying non-power customers, potentially hurting companies in other industries as India battles one of its worst power supply deficits in years.<\/p>\n<p>India is the world&#8217;s second largest coal producer, with the world&#8217;s fourth largest reserves, but a surge in power demand to above pre-pandemic levels means supplies from state-run Coal India, the world&#8217;s biggest coal miner, are no longer enough.<\/p>\n<p>The company said in a statement that it had stopped all online auctions of coal except those meant for the power sector.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is only a temporary prioritisation, in the interest of the Nation, to tide over the low coal stock situation at the stressed power plants and scale up supplies to them,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-run Coal India Ltd on Thursday said it had temporarily stopped supplying non-power customers, potentially hurting companies in other industries as India battles one of its worst power supply deficits in years. India is the world&#8217;s second largest coal producer, with the world&#8217;s fourth largest reserves, but a surge in power demand to above pre-pandemic levels means supplies from state-run Coal India, the world&#8217;s biggest coal miner, are no longer enough. The company said in a statement that it had stopped all online auctions of coal except those meant for the power sector. &#8220;This is only a temporary prioritisation, 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-442767","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\/442767","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=442767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}