{"id":482773,"date":"2022-04-06T12:01:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T06:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=482773"},"modified":"2022-04-06T12:01:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T06:31:32","slug":"ntpcs-annual-coal-imports-expected-to-hit-8-year-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ntpcs-annual-coal-imports-expected-to-hit-8-year-high\/","title":{"rendered":"NTPC&#8217;s annual coal imports expected to hit 8-year high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Top electricity producer NTPC Ltd&#8217;s coal imports this financial year will be the highest in eight years despite near-record prices, two senior officials at the company said, as it looks to address a domestic shortage.<br \/>\nThe state-run utility, which produces over a quarter of India&#8217;s power output, will import 16 million tonnes for blending with domestic coal during the year ending March 2023, the officials said.<br \/>\n&#8220;We have been directed by the Indian government to import 16 million tonnes, and we will be doing it to ensure the country&#8217;s energy security,&#8221; one of the officials said.<br \/>\nThe rise in imports reflects strong growth in demand for power as India&#8217;s economy recovers after the pandemic and forecasts for a particularly hot summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Top electricity producer NTPC Ltd&#8217;s coal imports this financial year will be the highest in eight years despite near-record prices, two senior officials at the company said, as it looks to address a domestic shortage. The state-run utility, which produces over a quarter of India&#8217;s power output, will import 16 million tonnes for blending with domestic coal during the year ending March 2023, the officials said. &#8220;We have been directed by the Indian government to import 16 million tonnes, and we will be doing it to ensure the country&#8217;s energy security,&#8221; one of the officials said. The rise [&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":[222,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482773","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=482773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}