{"id":443026,"date":"2021-10-18T08:26:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T02:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=443026"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:43:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T03:13:39","slug":"indias-electricity-demand-picks-up-in-oct-as-coal-shortage-lingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-electricity-demand-picks-up-in-oct-as-coal-shortage-lingers\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s electricity demand picks up in Oct as coal shortage lingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI (Reuters) &#8211; India&#8217;s electricity demand grew 4.9% during the first half of October, with supply falling short of demand by 1.4% despite a 3.2% rise in coal-fired generation and 30% rise in solar output, a Reuters analysis of government data showed.<\/p>\n<p>Increased economic activity after the second wave of the coronavirus has driven up electricity demand, resulting in a supply deficit due to a coal shortage that has forced northern states to cut power this month for up to 14 hours a day https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/india\/exclusive-indian-states-suffer-power-cuts-coal-stocks-shrink-2021-10-08.<\/p>\n<p>The rapid surge in power demand and high global coal prices have left utilities scampering for coal &#8211; India&#8217;s dominant source of power generation &#8211; despite record supplies from state-run Coal India, a near-monopoly in coal production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI (Reuters) &#8211; India&#8217;s electricity demand grew 4.9% during the first half of October, with supply falling short of demand by 1.4% despite a 3.2% rise in coal-fired generation and 30% rise in solar output, a Reuters analysis of government data showed. Increased economic activity after the second wave of the coronavirus has driven up electricity demand, resulting in a supply deficit due to a coal shortage that has forced northern states to cut power this month for up to 14 hours a day https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/india\/exclusive-indian-states-suffer-power-cuts-coal-stocks-shrink-2021-10-08. The rapid surge in power demand and high global coal prices have left utilities scampering [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443026","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=443026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}