{"id":3075,"date":"2005-05-07T21:59:33","date_gmt":"2005-05-08T04:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/05\/07\/peter-s-goodman-power-drain\/"},"modified":"2005-05-07T21:59:33","modified_gmt":"2005-05-08T04:59:33","slug":"peter-s-goodman-power-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/05\/peter-s-goodman-power-drain\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter S. Goodman: Power Drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A32877-2005May3_2.html\">From Washington Post<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe coal spike has ravaged much of China&#8217;s power industry, with 85 percent of the country&#8217;s plants now losing money, according to the official China Daily. A new crop of foreign investors now scours China for power plants at distressed prices.<\/p>\n<p>In much of the rest of the world, including the United States, what Peak and other power producers are experiencing would have been moderated by long-term contracts that lock in a fixed price for coal over years. But in China, long-term deals are almost unknown. Entrepreneurs disdain them as a limit on their upside.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Washington Post: The coal spike has ravaged much of China&#8217;s power industry, with 85 percent of the country&#8217;s plants now losing money, according to the official China Daily. A new crop of foreign investors now scours China for power plants at distressed prices. 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