{"id":290367,"date":"2019-09-04T06:54:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T06:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=290367"},"modified":"2019-09-04T06:54:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T06:54:51","slug":"why-demand-for-power-is-surging-amid-indias-growth-slowdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/why-demand-for-power-is-surging-amid-indias-growth-slowdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Why demand for power is surging amid India\u2019s growth slowdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An almost 7% growth in India\u2019s electricity demand at a time when economic expansion has cooled to its weakest in six years may appear as a paradox at first glance. Clarity emerges with a closer look. <\/p>\n<p>Power requirement growth in the nation\u2019s most industrialized states decelerated in the April-July period, as demand from businesses cooled in line with the broader slowdown in Asia\u2019s third-largest economy. The overall jump in demand, on the other hand, came mostly because of a rise in demand from states that happened to add a large number of households to the electricity network for the first time. <\/p>\n<p>Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, the nation\u2019s hubs for making automobiles and ancillaries, witnessed demand grow 2.7% and 1.4%, respectively &#8212; the slowest growth among large power consumers, data from the government\u2019s Central Electricity Authority show. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An almost 7% growth in India\u2019s electricity demand at a time when economic expansion has cooled to its weakest in six years may appear as a paradox at first glance. Clarity emerges with a closer look. Power requirement growth in the nation\u2019s most industrialized states decelerated in the April-July period, as demand from businesses cooled in line with the broader slowdown in Asia\u2019s third-largest economy. The overall jump in demand, on the other hand, came mostly because of a rise in demand from states that happened to add a large number of households to the electricity network for the first [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290367","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\/290367","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=290367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}