{"id":457220,"date":"2021-12-20T09:34:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T04:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=457220"},"modified":"2021-12-20T10:23:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T04:53:28","slug":"coal-studded-with-rocks-and-mud-is-indias-new-energy-headache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-studded-with-rocks-and-mud-is-indias-new-energy-headache\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal studded with rocks and mud is India&#8217;s new energy headache"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s power producers have a new problem now that a squeeze on coal supply has eased, they\u2019re contending with declining quality of domestic fuel &#8212; an issue that risks adding costs and wrecking equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Electricity producers have complained to the country\u2019s power ministry about increasing instances in recent months of impurities such as rocks and mud being found mixed with coal, according to government and company officials with knowledge of the issue. <\/p>\n<p>Coal that\u2019s laced with rubble or other material can damage power plant equipment such as conveyor belts, crushers and even boiler parts if not filtered out. That can cause supply delays and increase costs, according to the people, who requested anonymity to provide detail of private discussions on the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s power producers have a new problem now that a squeeze on coal supply has eased, they\u2019re contending with declining quality of domestic fuel &#8212; an issue that risks adding costs and wrecking equipment. Electricity producers have complained to the country\u2019s power ministry about increasing instances in recent months of impurities such as rocks and mud being found mixed with coal, according to government and company officials with knowledge of the issue. Coal that\u2019s laced with rubble or other material can damage power plant equipment such as conveyor belts, crushers and even boiler parts if not filtered out. That can [&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":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457220","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=457220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}