{"id":501617,"date":"2022-06-29T10:44:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T05:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=501617"},"modified":"2022-06-29T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T06:37:09","slug":"indias-rush-to-avoid-blackouts-leaving-iron-firms-without-coal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-rush-to-avoid-blackouts-leaving-iron-firms-without-coal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s rush to avoid blackouts leaving iron firms without coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sponge iron producers in India are raising concern as fuel supply contracts won\u2019t be renewed as the nation\u2019s state-run coal miner continues to prioritise power plants in an effort to avoid blackouts. <\/p>\n<p>Supplies from Coal India Ltd for some producers are scheduled to end from August, which means the companies will be forced to rely on vastly more expensive imported fuel, said Anil Nachrani, president of the Chhattisgarh Sponge Iron Manufacturers Association.<\/p>\n<p>The producers in Chhattisgarh have appealed to the state miner to renew their pacts and are seeking talks with Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi, according to Nachrani.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sponge iron producers in India are raising concern as fuel supply contracts won\u2019t be renewed as the nation\u2019s state-run coal miner continues to prioritise power plants in an effort to avoid blackouts. Supplies from Coal India Ltd for some producers are scheduled to end from August, which means the companies will be forced to rely on vastly more expensive imported fuel, said Anil Nachrani, president of the Chhattisgarh Sponge Iron Manufacturers Association. The producers in Chhattisgarh have appealed to the state miner to renew their pacts and are seeking talks with Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi, according to Nachrani.<\/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":[175,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501617","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=501617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}