{"id":447082,"date":"2021-11-02T10:12:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T04:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447082"},"modified":"2021-11-02T11:03:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T05:33:32","slug":"indias-october-power-demand-rises-4-1-coal-fired-output-up-1-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-october-power-demand-rises-4-1-coal-fired-output-up-1-8\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s October power demand rises 4.1%, coal-fired output up 1.8%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s electricity demand grew 4.1% in October, with supply falling short of demand by 1%, despite a rise of 1.8% in coal-fired generation and an increase of 28.4% in solar output, a Reuters analysis of government data showed. <\/p>\n<p>Demand boosted by increased economic activity after the second wave of coronavirus infections caused a shortage of coal that forced India&#8217;s northern states to cut power last month for up to 14 hours a day.<\/p>\n<p>The rapid demand surge and high global prices have left utilities scrambling for coal, India&#8217;s dominant fuel for power generation, despite record supplies from state-run Coal India, which has a near-monopoly of production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s electricity demand grew 4.1% in October, with supply falling short of demand by 1%, despite a rise of 1.8% in coal-fired generation and an increase of 28.4% in solar output, a Reuters analysis of government data showed. Demand boosted by increased economic activity after the second wave of coronavirus infections caused a shortage of coal that forced India&#8217;s northern states to cut power last month for up to 14 hours a day. The rapid demand surge and high global prices have left utilities scrambling for coal, India&#8217;s dominant fuel for power generation, despite record supplies from state-run Coal India, [&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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447082","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=447082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}