{"id":458474,"date":"2021-12-27T10:41:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T05:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=458474"},"modified":"2021-12-27T10:41:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T05:11:30","slug":"power-demand-rises-10-in-april-november-coal-keeps-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-demand-rises-10-in-april-november-coal-keeps-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"Power demand rises 10% in April-November, coal keeps pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s power demand, a key indicator of economic growth, jumped more than 10% in the April-November period of the current financial year, indicating a strong recovery.<br \/>\nGovernment data shows coal-fired generation meeting 71% of the demand, making it clear that black diamond will continue to occupy the centre stage amid rapid growth in power demand.<br \/>\nConsider: all sources put together generated 978 billion units (BU) during the period under review, while coal-fired plants accounted for 696 BUs.<br \/>\nIndeed, coal-fired plants stepped up generation by 14% to bridge the gap left by a 28% fall in output from stations running on imported coal and 43% from imported gas as a sharp rise in their prices made them uneconomical for cash-strapped distribution companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s power demand, a key indicator of economic growth, jumped more than 10% in the April-November period of the current financial year, indicating a strong recovery. Government data shows coal-fired generation meeting 71% of the demand, making it clear that black diamond will continue to occupy the centre stage amid rapid growth in power demand. Consider: all sources put together generated 978 billion units (BU) during the period under review, while coal-fired plants accounted for 696 BUs. Indeed, coal-fired plants stepped up generation by 14% to bridge the gap left by a 28% fall in output from stations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458474","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}