{"id":485641,"date":"2022-04-21T11:41:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T06:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=485641"},"modified":"2022-04-21T11:41:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T06:11:33","slug":"what-can-india-do-to-address-its-perennial-power-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/what-can-india-do-to-address-its-perennial-power-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"What can India do to address its perennial power shortage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s March was hottest in over a century, leading to earlier-than-usual surge in electricity demand.<\/p>\n<p>The big mismatch in demand and supply forced several states to resort to power cuts. India gets 75% of its electricity from coal.<\/p>\n<p>And the average coal stocks at domestic power plants have fallen to nine days as of mid-April, the lowest in at least eight years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s March was hottest in over a century, leading to earlier-than-usual surge in electricity demand. The big mismatch in demand and supply forced several states to resort to power cuts. India gets 75% of its electricity from coal. And the average coal stocks at domestic power plants have fallen to nine days as of mid-April, the lowest in at least eight years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485641","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}