{"id":268118,"date":"2019-04-05T05:20:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T05:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=268118"},"modified":"2019-04-05T05:27:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T05:27:08","slug":"elections-and-rising-summer-temperatures-push-up-energy-demand-in-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/elections-and-rising-summer-temperatures-push-up-energy-demand-in-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections and rising summer temperatures push up energy demand in UP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the first phase of voting on April 11 just a week away, rising mercury levels have pushed up the power demand in Uttar Pradesh by almost 25% over a fortnight. <\/p>\n<p>Compared with power demand of about 12,000 megawatt (Mw) two weeks ago, the energy demand in the state has shot up by 33% to nearly 16,000 Mw at present with state power utility UP Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) issuing a directive to power distribution companies (discoms) for providing uninterrupted power supply across 23 districts in Western UP, which will witness polling in the first three phases. <\/p>\n<p>The UPPCL order followed the Election Commission of India (ECI) directive for ensuring 24&#215;7 power supply in these constituencies, including villages during the polling period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the first phase of voting on April 11 just a week away, rising mercury levels have pushed up the power demand in Uttar Pradesh by almost 25% over a fortnight. Compared with power demand of about 12,000 megawatt (Mw) two weeks ago, the energy demand in the state has shot up by 33% to nearly 16,000 Mw at present with state power utility UP Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) issuing a directive to power distribution companies (discoms) for providing uninterrupted power supply across 23 districts in Western UP, which will witness polling in the first three phases. The UPPCL order [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268118","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=268118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}