{"id":520913,"date":"2022-09-12T09:48:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T04:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=520913"},"modified":"2022-09-12T10:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T04:52:17","slug":"india-considers-further-coal-imports-as-concern-over-energy-supply-grows-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-considers-further-coal-imports-as-concern-over-energy-supply-grows-2\/","title":{"rendered":"India considers further coal imports as concern over energy supply grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Energy officials in India are considering whether further coal imports may be needed to avoid any fresh squeeze on the nation\u2019s power supply. <\/p>\n<p>Stockpiles of the fossil fuel at power plants have fallen about 11% since mid-August, meaning utilities have an average of 10 days supply, well below required levels of more than three weeks. Coal helps produce about 70% of India\u2019s electricity. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are watching the situation anxiously,\u201d Power and Renewable Energy Minister Raj Kumar Singh said in an interview. \u201cAvailability of power for the common man is non-negotiable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy officials in India are considering whether further coal imports may be needed to avoid any fresh squeeze on the nation\u2019s power supply. Stockpiles of the fossil fuel at power plants have fallen about 11% since mid-August, meaning utilities have an average of 10 days supply, well below required levels of more than three weeks. Coal helps produce about 70% of India\u2019s electricity. \u201cWe are watching the situation anxiously,\u201d Power and Renewable Energy Minister Raj Kumar Singh said in an interview. \u201cAvailability of power for the common man is non-negotiable.\u201d<\/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-520913","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\/520913","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=520913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}