{"id":301967,"date":"2019-11-21T10:22:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T04:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=301967"},"modified":"2019-11-21T10:56:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T05:26:04","slug":"better-rainfall-led-to-lower-thermal-power-demand-in-october-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/better-rainfall-led-to-lower-thermal-power-demand-in-october-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Better rainfall led to lower thermal power demand in October: Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Wednesday dismissed media reports of a slowdown in the thermal power sector and said that the lower demand in October resulted due to increasing consumption of renewable energy and hydroelectricity. <\/p>\n<p>In a series of tweets, Minister of Power and New and Renewable Energy R K Singh said the Central government has added renewables and fall in demand of thermal power was to be attributed to the reduced dependency on thermal sources of energy. &#8220;I dismiss the reports of thermal power demand slowdown. We have brought flexibilization and took major steps to reduce inefficiency in the sector&#8230; Statement that the lower demand in October was indicative of a slowdown in the economy is nonsensical,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Wednesday dismissed media reports of a slowdown in the thermal power sector and said that the lower demand in October resulted due to increasing consumption of renewable energy and hydroelectricity. In a series of tweets, Minister of Power and New and Renewable Energy R K Singh said the Central government has added renewables and fall in demand of thermal power was to be attributed to the reduced dependency on thermal sources of energy. &#8220;I dismiss the reports of thermal power demand slowdown. We have brought flexibilization and took major steps to reduce inefficiency in the sector&#8230; Statement [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301967","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=301967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}