{"id":585320,"date":"2023-06-19T10:47:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T05:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=585320"},"modified":"2023-06-19T11:36:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T06:06:12","slug":"why-a-huge-coal-power-plant-in-bangladesh-keeps-running-out-of-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/why-a-huge-coal-power-plant-in-bangladesh-keeps-running-out-of-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a huge coal power plant in Bangladesh keeps running out of coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world\u2019s newest, most contested coal-burning power plants began operation in December. By January, it had ground to a halt for a month. Again, in April, it sat idle for 23 days.<\/p>\n<p>The reason: It didn\u2019t have coal to burn.<\/p>\n<p>That meant it couldn\u2019t produce any electricity nor make money to recoup the $2 billion it cost to build. <\/p>\n<p>The troubles facing the Maitree power plant are a glimpse into the risks that other new coal plants around the world could face in coming years, for a variety of reasons. Maitree shut down temporarily because of a shortage of foreign currency to import coal from Indonesia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world\u2019s newest, most contested coal-burning power plants began operation in December. By January, it had ground to a halt for a month. Again, in April, it sat idle for 23 days. The reason: It didn\u2019t have coal to burn. That meant it couldn\u2019t produce any electricity nor make money to recoup the $2 billion it cost to build. The troubles facing the Maitree power plant are a glimpse into the risks that other new coal plants around the world could face in coming years, for a variety of reasons. Maitree shut down temporarily because of a shortage [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585320","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=585320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}