{"id":602262,"date":"2023-09-06T12:08:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T06:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=602262"},"modified":"2023-09-06T12:08:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T06:38:22","slug":"power-generators-asked-to-import-4-coal-till-march-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-generators-asked-to-import-4-coal-till-march-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Power generators asked to import 4% coal till March next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has directed all power generating companies to import four per cent coal by March 2024 to ensure the commodity\u2019s adequate availability in view of an increasing power demand in the country, people aware of the development said.<\/p>\n<p>Uttar Pradesh has been resisting the Centre\u2019s directions for a year, arguing that the purchase of the expensive foreign coal will make power production costlier, which, in turn, might result in a higher tariff for the end users.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYet again, we have received the Centre\u2019s instructions to import coal,\u201d said a senior energy department official, adding, \u201cWe will soon refer the issue to the state government.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has directed all power generating companies to import four per cent coal by March 2024 to ensure the commodity\u2019s adequate availability in view of an increasing power demand in the country, people aware of the development said. Uttar Pradesh has been resisting the Centre\u2019s directions for a year, arguing that the purchase of the expensive foreign coal will make power production costlier, which, in turn, might result in a higher tariff for the end users. \u201cYet again, we have received the Centre\u2019s instructions to import coal,\u201d said a senior energy department official, adding, \u201cWe will soon refer the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602262","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}