{"id":453305,"date":"2021-12-02T08:52:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T03:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=453305"},"modified":"2021-12-02T09:16:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T03:46:05","slug":"indias-power-demand-growth-slows-in-november-helping-ease-coal-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-power-demand-growth-slows-in-november-helping-ease-coal-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s power demand growth slows in November, helping ease coal shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s electricity demand grew 2.2% in November, slower than the 4.1% increase in October, a Reuters analysis of government data showed, helping the energy-hungry nation tide over a crippling coal shortage that caused widespread power cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Surging power demand and high global prices in October 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<p>Average daily coal-fired power generation in November was down 2.8% from October, an analysis of load dispatch data from federal grid regulator Power System Operation Corporation Ltd (POSOCO) showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s electricity demand grew 2.2% in November, slower than the 4.1% increase in October, a Reuters analysis of government data showed, helping the energy-hungry nation tide over a crippling coal shortage that caused widespread power cuts. Surging power demand and high global prices in October 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. Average daily coal-fired power generation in November was down 2.8% from October, an analysis of load dispatch data from federal grid regulator Power System Operation Corporation Ltd (POSOCO) showed.<\/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-453305","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\/453305","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=453305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}