{"id":269071,"date":"2019-04-16T06:11:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T06:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=269071"},"modified":"2019-04-16T06:11:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T06:11:52","slug":"indias-weak-power-demand-points-to-more-slowdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-weak-power-demand-points-to-more-slowdown\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s weak power demand points to more slowdown"},"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. Uncertainty about the outcome of a national election beginning Thursday, weak domestic demand and a global slowdown have clouded India\u2019s economy. <\/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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269071","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}