{"id":301947,"date":"2019-11-21T10:47:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T05:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=301947"},"modified":"2019-11-21T10:47:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T05:17:01","slug":"power-demand-growing-despite-last-months-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-demand-growing-despite-last-months-slump\/","title":{"rendered":"Power demand growing despite last month\u2019s slump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India\u2019s electricity demand has been growing although it fell last month because of excessive rain, the power ministry said, rubbishing reports that the decline indicated an economic slowdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaking a judgment on one month\u2019s data while ignoring the high growth in the other months is nonsensical,\u201d the ministry said in a statement. It said rising renewable and hydropower generation led to lower use of thermal plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India\u2019s electricity demand has been growing although it fell last month because of excessive rain, the power ministry said, rubbishing reports that the decline indicated an economic slowdown. \u201cMaking a judgment on one month\u2019s data while ignoring the high growth in the other months is nonsensical,\u201d the ministry said in a statement. It said rising renewable and hydropower generation led to lower use of thermal plants.<\/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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301947","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\/301947","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=301947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}