{"id":284911,"date":"2019-07-29T06:28:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T06:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=284911"},"modified":"2019-07-29T06:28:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T06:28:52","slug":"power-less-more-transmission-towers-collapse-as-winds-turn-ferocious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-less-more-transmission-towers-collapse-as-winds-turn-ferocious\/","title":{"rendered":"Power-less: More transmission towers collapse as winds turn ferocious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is more proof of climate change\u2019s enormous economic cost. Altered wind patterns across the Indian<br \/>\nsub-continent, which the scientific community, too, hasn\u2019t sufficiently forewarned of, is wreaking havoc on the country\u2019s power transmission sector, with the towers collapsing at a much faster rate in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>While over 90% of tower collapses are believed to be due to high-speed wind, as many as 473 towers failed between 2012 and 2016, compared with 142 in the previous five-year period. Replying to a question raised in Parliament, power minister RK Singh recently said as many as 52 electricity transmission towers collapsed between October 2016 and March 2018 and high-velocity wind was behind the failure of 39 of these towers, which came apart within five years of commissioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is more proof of climate change\u2019s enormous economic cost. Altered wind patterns across the Indian sub-continent, which the scientific community, too, hasn\u2019t sufficiently forewarned of, is wreaking havoc on the country\u2019s power transmission sector, with the towers collapsing at a much faster rate in recent years. While over 90% of tower collapses are believed to be due to high-speed wind, as many as 473 towers failed between 2012 and 2016, compared with 142 in the previous five-year period. Replying to a question raised in Parliament, power minister RK Singh recently said as many as 52 electricity transmission towers collapsed [&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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284911","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=284911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}