{"id":516032,"date":"2022-08-23T09:30:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T04:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=516032"},"modified":"2022-08-23T09:43:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T04:13:47","slug":"bangladesh-to-cut-school-and-office-hours-as-it-battles-power-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bangladesh-to-cut-school-and-office-hours-as-it-battles-power-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh to cut school and office hours as it battles power shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh will close schools for one extra day a week and cut office timings by an hour to save power, a government official said on Monday, as the country battles a shortage after shutting down all of its diesel-run power plants.<\/p>\n<p>The South Asian country last month shut down all 10 of its diesel power plants after Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine drove up the cost of imported fuel. Bangladesh began daily two-hour power cuts last month, but many parts of the country go without electricity for much longer.<\/p>\n<p>The shut plants account for about 6% of Bangladesh&#8217;s total power generation capacity of 23,000 megawatts. Natural gas, locally produced and imported, generates nearly three-quarters of the total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh will close schools for one extra day a week and cut office timings by an hour to save power, a government official said on Monday, as the country battles a shortage after shutting down all of its diesel-run power plants. The South Asian country last month shut down all 10 of its diesel power plants after Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine drove up the cost of imported fuel. Bangladesh began daily two-hour power cuts last month, but many parts of the country go without electricity for much longer. The shut plants account for about 6% of Bangladesh&#8217;s total power generation [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516032","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=516032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}