{"id":271651,"date":"2019-04-29T05:02:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T05:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=271651"},"modified":"2019-04-29T05:02:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T05:02:31","slug":"steady-growth-in-electricity-demand-spells-relief-for-stressed-power-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/steady-growth-in-electricity-demand-spells-relief-for-stressed-power-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Steady growth in electricity demand spells relief for stressed power plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s electricity generation is growing at a tepid pace. In FY19, power generation rose just 3.6%. However, there has been a steady expansion in base and peak demand. In FY19, base and peak demand increased 5% and 7.9%, respectively, shows data compiled by Central Electricity Authority. Base demand is minimum electricity requirement in a day, and peak demand is the maximum demand during a set period.<\/p>\n<p>The growing demand is facilitating new power purchase agreements (PPAs). A Gujarat utility has invited bids for 3,000 megawatts (MW) of power, the first long-term PPA after almost four years, point out analysts at Motilal Oswal Securities Ltd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s electricity generation is growing at a tepid pace. In FY19, power generation rose just 3.6%. However, there has been a steady expansion in base and peak demand. In FY19, base and peak demand increased 5% and 7.9%, respectively, shows data compiled by Central Electricity Authority. Base demand is minimum electricity requirement in a day, and peak demand is the maximum demand during a set period. The growing demand is facilitating new power purchase agreements (PPAs). A Gujarat utility has invited bids for 3,000 megawatts (MW) of power, the first long-term PPA after almost four years, point out analysts at [&hellip;]<\/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-271651","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\/271651","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=271651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}