{"id":444258,"date":"2021-10-22T11:10:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T05:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=444258"},"modified":"2021-10-22T11:10:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T05:40:57","slug":"coal-shortage-crisis-may-linger-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-shortage-crisis-may-linger-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal shortage crisis may linger: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terming lingering coal shortage as a clear and present risk, a Crisil report has said though India Inc is unscathed for now, power prospects hinge on coal availability, which looks unlikely to improve anytime soon. Of late, power demand has recovered sharply, with peak demand sharper in the five years through September and monthly demand growth averaging 4 per cent, though it did exceed 12 per cent in a few months of fiscal 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In the recent past, power demand has surged again. Base demand has clocked 13 per cent growth year-to-date. Volatility in base demand has also risen sharply over the past two years, and peak demand growth has been higher at nearly 15 per cent, while volatility has spiked too. Coal stocks are unlikely to improve to the previous level of 15-18 days inventory anytime soon, as rake availability and a pick-up in power demand in March-May next will be the key monitorable from now on, Crisil NSE 0.81 % said in the report on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terming lingering coal shortage as a clear and present risk, a Crisil report has said though India Inc is unscathed for now, power prospects hinge on coal availability, which looks unlikely to improve anytime soon. Of late, power demand has recovered sharply, with peak demand sharper in the five years through September and monthly demand growth averaging 4 per cent, though it did exceed 12 per cent in a few months of fiscal 2020. In the recent past, power demand has surged again. Base demand has clocked 13 per cent growth year-to-date. Volatility in base demand has also risen sharply [&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":[194,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444258","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=444258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}