{"id":290547,"date":"2019-09-05T06:23:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T06:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=290547"},"modified":"2019-09-05T06:23:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T06:23:51","slug":"power-demand-surging-thanks-to-modi-even-amid-economic-growth-slowdown-trouble-for-govt-utilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-demand-surging-thanks-to-modi-even-amid-economic-growth-slowdown-trouble-for-govt-utilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Power demand surging thanks to Modi even amid economic growth slowdown; trouble for govt utilities"},"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. 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 requirement from states that happened to add a large number of households to the electricity network for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Uttar Pradesh, India\u2019s most populous state that added the maximum number of new household power consumers, saw demand rise 9%, while Rajasthan saw demand growth of 11% during the four-month period, 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 requirement from states that happened to add a large number of households to the electricity network for the first [&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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290547","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\/290547","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=290547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}