{"id":602525,"date":"2023-09-08T10:40:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T05:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=602525"},"modified":"2023-09-08T12:52:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T07:22:07","slug":"india-seeks-more-natural-gas-amid-emergency-measures-to-end-blackouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-seeks-more-natural-gas-amid-emergency-measures-to-end-blackouts\/","title":{"rendered":"India seeks more natural gas amid emergency measures to end blackouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is seeking additional volumes of natural gas and has asked utilities to expedite completion of power plant maintenance, as part of emergency steps to stop electricity outages, according to a government note seen by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The power ministry is advising states to expedite commissioning of all new power plants and operate gas-fired plants at full capacity, the note said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In order to cater to the high demand situation, all available resources in the grid are being harnessed. It is pertinent to mention that the entire onus of meeting non-solar hours demand falls upon the coal fired generation,&#8221; the note said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is seeking additional volumes of natural gas and has asked utilities to expedite completion of power plant maintenance, as part of emergency steps to stop electricity outages, according to a government note seen by Reuters. The power ministry is advising states to expedite commissioning of all new power plants and operate gas-fired plants at full capacity, the note said. &#8220;In order to cater to the high demand situation, all available resources in the grid are being harnessed. It is pertinent to mention that the entire onus of meeting non-solar hours demand falls upon the coal fired generation,&#8221; the note [&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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602525","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=602525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}