{"id":269050,"date":"2019-04-16T06:09:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T06:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=269050"},"modified":"2019-04-16T06:09:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T06:09:10","slug":"indias-weak-power-demand-points-to-more-slowdown-pain-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-weak-power-demand-points-to-more-slowdown-pain-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s weak power demand points to more slowdown pain ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is witnessing a listless growth in electricity demand, possibly signaling more slowdown in Asia\u2019s third-largest economy.<\/p>\n<p>Electricity requirement from distribution utilities in February rose 1.3 percent from a year earlier and barely changed from January\u2019s 1.1 percent, the weakest growth in two years, according to the power ministry\u2019s Central Electricity Authority. Data for power generation, a proxy for demand, showed the weakness continued into March.<\/p>\n<p>The trend points to a lack of appetite among factories and commercial firms &#8212; who consume about half the country\u2019s electricity &#8212; ahead of government data on industrial production for February that\u2019s due Friday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is witnessing a listless growth in electricity demand, possibly signaling more slowdown in Asia\u2019s third-largest economy. Electricity requirement from distribution utilities in February rose 1.3 percent from a year earlier and barely changed from January\u2019s 1.1 percent, the weakest growth in two years, according to the power ministry\u2019s Central Electricity Authority. Data for power generation, a proxy for demand, showed the weakness continued into March. The trend points to a lack of appetite among factories and commercial firms &#8212; who consume about half the country\u2019s electricity &#8212; ahead of government data on industrial production for February that\u2019s due Friday.<\/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":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269050","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=269050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}