{"id":498968,"date":"2022-06-17T10:32:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T05:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=498968"},"modified":"2022-06-17T12:50:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T07:20:18","slug":"how-the-worlds-top-coal-lng-exporter-ran-into-a-power-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/how-the-worlds-top-coal-lng-exporter-ran-into-a-power-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"How the world&#8217;s top coal, LNG exporter ran into a power crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia, the world&#8217;s top exporter of coal and liquefied natural gas, is battling a power crunch, posing major challenges for the country&#8217;s new Labor government that wants to speed up the shift to greener power. <\/p>\n<p>Faced with soaring global energy prices, coal supply disruptions and outages at coal-fired power plants, the country&#8217;s energy market operator has taken unprecedented measures to control electricity and gas prices and secure steady supply.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a whole cascading series of events that have created this chaos,&#8221; said Dylan McConnell, an energy systems research fellow at the University of Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia, the world&#8217;s top exporter of coal and liquefied natural gas, is battling a power crunch, posing major challenges for the country&#8217;s new Labor government that wants to speed up the shift to greener power. Faced with soaring global energy prices, coal supply disruptions and outages at coal-fired power plants, the country&#8217;s energy market operator has taken unprecedented measures to control electricity and gas prices and secure steady supply. &#8220;It&#8217;s a whole cascading series of events that have created this chaos,&#8221; said Dylan McConnell, an energy systems research fellow at the University of Melbourne.<\/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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498968","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=498968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}