{"id":300558,"date":"2019-11-13T11:18:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T05:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=300558"},"modified":"2019-11-13T11:18:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T05:48:57","slug":"india-slowdown-electricity-demand-falls-at-fastest-pace-in-at-least-12-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-slowdown-electricity-demand-falls-at-fastest-pace-in-at-least-12-years\/","title":{"rendered":"India slowdown: Electricity demand falls at fastest pace in at least 12 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : India&#8217;s power demand fell 13.2% in October from a year ago, posting its steepest monthly decline in over 12 years, government data showed, reflecting a deepening growth slowdown in Asia&#8217;s third-largest economy.<\/p>\n<p>The South Asian country needs electricity to fuel its expanding economy but a third decline in power consumption in as many months points to tapering industrial activity in the nation that aims to become a $5 trillion economy by 2024.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s June quarter GDP grew at its weakest pace in six years as consumer demand and government spending slowed, and economists see the falling electricity demand as a reflection of a further slowdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : India&#8217;s power demand fell 13.2% in October from a year ago, posting its steepest monthly decline in over 12 years, government data showed, reflecting a deepening growth slowdown in Asia&#8217;s third-largest economy. The South Asian country needs electricity to fuel its expanding economy but a third decline in power consumption in as many months points to tapering industrial activity in the nation that aims to become a $5 trillion economy by 2024. India&#8217;s June quarter GDP grew at its weakest pace in six years as consumer demand and government spending slowed, and economists see the falling electricity [&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-300558","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\/300558","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=300558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}