{"id":293624,"date":"2019-09-25T11:01:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T05:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=293624"},"modified":"2019-09-25T11:21:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T05:51:58","slug":"sluggish-economy-results-in-muted-power-demand-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sluggish-economy-results-in-muted-power-demand-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Sluggish economy results in muted power demand in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power demand in India declined by 1 per cent on a yearly basis due to weakness in the economy. <\/p>\n<p>According to a report from Kotak Institutional Equities, the decline in energy demand was across all regions in August 2019, except Northern India. Power demand in north India grew 1 per cent on a year-on-year basis. Further, renewable power generation was 15.6 BU in July, a decline of 1 per cent yearly. <\/p>\n<p>Western India saw which constitutes 26 per cent of the overall demand, saw the highest decline of 3 per cent on a year-on-year basis, the report said. This also showed up in the PLFs, or Plant Load Factor (which is a measure of how much a plant is being used) for coal-based capacities declined sharply to 51 per cent in August 2019 along with gas-based capabilities operating at a lower utilisation of 21 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power demand in India declined by 1 per cent on a yearly basis due to weakness in the economy. According to a report from Kotak Institutional Equities, the decline in energy demand was across all regions in August 2019, except Northern India. Power demand in north India grew 1 per cent on a year-on-year basis. Further, renewable power generation was 15.6 BU in July, a decline of 1 per cent yearly. Western India saw which constitutes 26 per cent of the overall demand, saw the highest decline of 3 per cent on a year-on-year basis, the report said. This also [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293624","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=293624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}