{"id":442979,"date":"2021-10-16T11:01:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T05:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=442979"},"modified":"2021-10-16T12:35:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T07:05:42","slug":"thermal-power-outage-due-to-low-coal-stocks-reduces-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/thermal-power-outage-due-to-low-coal-stocks-reduces-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thermal power outage due to low coal stocks reduces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The total thermal power capacity under outage due to low coal stocks fell to 6 GW (Gigawatts) on Wednesday from 11 GW on Tuesday, according to a Power Ministry release.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s thermal power plants had an average coal stock of four days on October 12, as against recommended inventory levels of 15-30 days based on the distance of plants from the source of coal. A spike in power demand as the economy recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic and high international coal prices, coupled with supply side issues and inadequate coal procurement by plants in the April-June period, have contributed to low coal inventory. Low stocks have contributed to power shortages across a number of states including Punjab, Rajasthan and Bihar that are facing power cuts due to inadequate supplies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The total thermal power capacity under outage due to low coal stocks fell to 6 GW (Gigawatts) on Wednesday from 11 GW on Tuesday, according to a Power Ministry release. The country\u2019s thermal power plants had an average coal stock of four days on October 12, as against recommended inventory levels of 15-30 days based on the distance of plants from the source of coal. A spike in power demand as the economy recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic and high international coal prices, coupled with supply side issues and inadequate coal procurement by plants in the April-June period, have contributed [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442979","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=442979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}