{"id":484707,"date":"2022-04-16T10:48:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T05:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=484707"},"modified":"2022-04-16T12:37:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T07:07:33","slug":"stretched-supply-chains-likely-to-weigh-on-coal-stocks-till-apr-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/stretched-supply-chains-likely-to-weigh-on-coal-stocks-till-apr-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Stretched supply chains likely to weigh on coal stocks till Apr-end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The issue of low coal stocks at thermal power plants across a number of states is likely to continue till at least the end of April, said a senior government official.<\/p>\n<p>Low coal inventories at thermal power plants have already led to load shedding in a number of states, including Punjab, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar. A senior government official said the requirement for thermal power had hit 3.4 billion units (BU) per day against an estimate of 3.25-3.3 BU per day as a result of unexpectedly high demand for power, and lower supply from gas-based power plants due to a spike in prices. Coal-based thermal power meets about 76 per cent of the country\u2019s power demand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The issue of low coal stocks at thermal power plants across a number of states is likely to continue till at least the end of April, said a senior government official. Low coal inventories at thermal power plants have already led to load shedding in a number of states, including Punjab, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar. A senior government official said the requirement for thermal power had hit 3.4 billion units (BU) per day against an estimate of 3.25-3.3 BU per day as a result of unexpectedly high demand for power, and lower supply from gas-based power plants [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484707","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=484707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}