{"id":501194,"date":"2022-06-28T09:54:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T04:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=501194"},"modified":"2022-06-28T10:37:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T05:07:49","slug":"india-continues-to-grapple-with-power-crisis-after-coal-price-surge-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-continues-to-grapple-with-power-crisis-after-coal-price-surge-report\/","title":{"rendered":"India continues to grapple with power crisis after coal price surge: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is continuing to grapple with a &#8220;severe and protracted&#8221; power crisis after a sustained surge in global coal prices in late-2021 was further aggravated by Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine in February, S&amp;P Global Commodity Insights said.<\/p>\n<p>The global price pressure eroded India&#8217;s import volumes and reduced its power plant stockpiles to critically low levels just as an unrelenting heat wave pushed demand to unprecedented levels. The country generates more than 75% of its power from coal, and is the world&#8217;s third-largest producer of electricity at 1,383 TWh\/year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is continuing to grapple with a &#8220;severe and protracted&#8221; power crisis after a sustained surge in global coal prices in late-2021 was further aggravated by Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine in February, S&amp;P Global Commodity Insights said. The global price pressure eroded India&#8217;s import volumes and reduced its power plant stockpiles to critically low levels just as an unrelenting heat wave pushed demand to unprecedented levels. The country generates more than 75% of its power from coal, and is the world&#8217;s third-largest producer of electricity at 1,383 TWh\/year.<\/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-501194","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\/501194","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=501194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}