{"id":481023,"date":"2022-04-01T10:40:48","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T05:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=481023"},"modified":"2022-04-01T10:40:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T05:10:48","slug":"march-electricity-shortage-worst-since-coal-crisis-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/march-electricity-shortage-worst-since-coal-crisis-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"March electricity shortage worst since coal crisis in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s electricity shortage from March 1 to March 30 was its worst since October, a Reuters analysis of government data shows.<br \/>\nA surge in power demand in March has forced India to cut coal supplies to the non-power sector and put on hold plans for some fuel auctions for utilities without supply deals due to a slump in inventories. read more<br \/>\nMany northern states suffered hours-long power outages in October, when a crippling coal shortage caused the worst electricity deficit in nearly five years. read more<br \/>\nShortages in the eastern state of Jharkhand and Uttarakhand in the north surpassed those of October, the latest data showed.<br \/>\nGujarat, one of the country&#8217;s most industrialized, has ordered a staggered shutdown of &#8220;non-continuous process&#8221; industries in key cities next week, according to a government note reviewed by Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s electricity shortage from March 1 to March 30 was its worst since October, a Reuters analysis of government data shows. A surge in power demand in March has forced India to cut coal supplies to the non-power sector and put on hold plans for some fuel auctions for utilities without supply deals due to a slump in inventories. read more Many northern states suffered hours-long power outages in October, when a crippling coal shortage caused the worst electricity deficit in nearly five years. read more Shortages in the eastern state of Jharkhand and Uttarakhand in the north [&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-481023","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\/481023","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=481023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}