{"id":486681,"date":"2022-04-25T12:50:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T07:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=486681"},"modified":"2022-04-25T12:50:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T07:20:29","slug":"current-power-crisis-due-to-sharp-fall-in-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/current-power-crisis-due-to-sharp-fall-in-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Current power crisis due to sharp fall in generation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The current power crisis is mainly on account of a sharp decline in electricity generation from different fuel sources and not due to the non-availability of domestic coal, a top official said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The above statement assumes significance in the wake of reports of many states, including Maharashtra, facing power outages due to a shortage of coal.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview to PTI, Coal Secretary A K Jain attributed the low coal stocks at power plants to several factors such as heightened power demand due to the boom in the economy post COVID-19, early arrival of summer, rise in the price of gas and imported coal and sharp fall in electricity generation by coastal thermal power plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The current power crisis is mainly on account of a sharp decline in electricity generation from different fuel sources and not due to the non-availability of domestic coal, a top official said on Sunday. The above statement assumes significance in the wake of reports of many states, including Maharashtra, facing power outages due to a shortage of coal. In an interview to PTI, Coal Secretary A K Jain attributed the low coal stocks at power plants to several factors such as heightened power demand due to the boom in the economy post COVID-19, early arrival of summer, 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":[147,130,235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greater-kashmir","category-newspapers","category-power-greater-kashmir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486681","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=486681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}