{"id":443098,"date":"2021-10-18T10:57:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T05:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=443098"},"modified":"2021-10-18T10:57:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T05:27:09","slug":"how-rains-lack-of-foresight-of-power-producers-states-caused-a-power-crisis-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/how-rains-lack-of-foresight-of-power-producers-states-caused-a-power-crisis-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"How rains, lack of foresight of power producers &amp; states caused a power crisis in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has installed base of 388-Gw, including 202-Gw projects based only on coal. The country managed 200 Gw of peak demand on July 7 this year, when the coal stocks were just enough, and rains had not disrupted coal supplies. Also, the 17,600-Mw imported coal-based projects were functional then. The immediate crisis seems largely fuel-related with prolonged monsoons impacting coal mining and high cost of imported coal rendering such fuel-based capacity unviable. However, coal stocking data shows, lack of adequate planning by states, non-payment of dues to Coal India NSE 1.06 % accentuated the supply issues. States did not build stocks through the year when there were supplies available, significantly contributing to the crisis. Sarita C Singh looks at the crisis:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has installed base of 388-Gw, including 202-Gw projects based only on coal. The country managed 200 Gw of peak demand on July 7 this year, when the coal stocks were just enough, and rains had not disrupted coal supplies. Also, the 17,600-Mw imported coal-based projects were functional then. The immediate crisis seems largely fuel-related with prolonged monsoons impacting coal mining and high cost of imported coal rendering such fuel-based capacity unviable. However, coal stocking data shows, lack of adequate planning by states, non-payment of dues to Coal India NSE 1.06 % accentuated the supply issues. States did not build [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443098","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}