{"id":443082,"date":"2021-10-18T09:07:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T03:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=443082"},"modified":"2021-10-18T09:56:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T04:26:55","slug":"indias-electricity-demand-rises-by-4-9-in-early-october-amid-coal-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-electricity-demand-rises-by-4-9-in-early-october-amid-coal-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s electricity demand rises by 4.9% in early October amid coal crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid an acute coal shortage, India&#8217;s electricity demand surged 4.9% during the first half of October as supply fell short of demand by 1.4%. With economic activity bouncing back at an unprecedented rate after the horrifying second wave of coronavirus pandemic, the country&#8217;s electricity demand has touched soaring heights, resulting in a supply deficit due to a coal crisis. <\/p>\n<p>This is despite a 3.2% rise in coal-fired generation and 30% rise in solar output, a Reuters report analysing the government&#8217;s data showed. The coal shortage has forced several northern states, including Rajasthan and Punjab, to cut power this month for up to 14 hours a day.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the power demand, high global coal prices have left utilities scampering for coal &#8211; India&#8217;s dominant source of generating electricity &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid an acute coal shortage, India&#8217;s electricity demand surged 4.9% during the first half of October as supply fell short of demand by 1.4%. With economic activity bouncing back at an unprecedented rate after the horrifying second wave of coronavirus pandemic, the country&#8217;s electricity demand has touched soaring heights, resulting in a supply deficit due to a coal crisis. This is despite a 3.2% rise in coal-fired generation and 30% rise in solar output, a Reuters report analysing the government&#8217;s data showed. The coal shortage has forced several northern states, including Rajasthan and Punjab, to cut power this month for [&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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443082","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=443082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}