{"id":485778,"date":"2022-04-22T09:11:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T03:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=485778"},"modified":"2022-04-22T09:23:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T03:53:59","slug":"top-industrial-states-plan-to-import-10-5-mn-tonnes-of-coal-to-beat-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/top-industrial-states-plan-to-import-10-5-mn-tonnes-of-coal-to-beat-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Top industrial states plan to import 10.5 mn tonnes of coal to beat crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three of India&#8217;s most industrialised states plan to import 10.5 million tonnes of coal in coming months as officials scramble to arrest widespread power cuts, a move that could push global coal prices to new highs.<\/p>\n<p>The scale of the purchases and the decision to go back on a plan to cut coal imports underscore the severity of the India&#8217;s fuel crisis. Utilities&#8217; coal inventories are at the lowest pre-summer levels in at least nine years and electricity demand is seen rising at the fastest pace in at least 38 years.<\/p>\n<p>Maharashtra plans to import 8 million tonnes for &#8220;blending purposes,&#8221; while Gujarat will place orders for 1 million tonnes next week,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three of India&#8217;s most industrialised states plan to import 10.5 million tonnes of coal in coming months as officials scramble to arrest widespread power cuts, a move that could push global coal prices to new highs. The scale of the purchases and the decision to go back on a plan to cut coal imports underscore the severity of the India&#8217;s fuel crisis. Utilities&#8217; coal inventories are at the lowest pre-summer levels in at least nine years and electricity demand is seen rising at the fastest pace in at least 38 years. Maharashtra plans to import 8 million tonnes for &#8220;blending [&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":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485778","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=485778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}