{"id":308328,"date":"2020-01-02T11:35:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T06:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=308328"},"modified":"2020-01-02T11:35:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T06:05:17","slug":"power-demand-rises-1-3-in-december-after-4-months-of-contraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-demand-rises-1-3-in-december-after-4-months-of-contraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Power demand rises 1.3% in December after 4 months of contraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After four straight months of contraction in electricity demand that revealed the enormity of the industrial slowdown, the consumption of power increased 1.3% year-on-year in December. This could give some comfort to the government while most high-frequency data are still not suggesting a bottoming out of the economic slowdown.<br \/>\nAccording to official data released on Tuesday, the output of eight core infrastructure sectors contracted for the fourth consecutive month in November by 1.5%, with electricity generation falling 5.7%.<\/p>\n<p>Till December 15, power consumption was lower than in the year ago period. The consumption has then picked up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After four straight months of contraction in electricity demand that revealed the enormity of the industrial slowdown, the consumption of power increased 1.3% year-on-year in December. This could give some comfort to the government while most high-frequency data are still not suggesting a bottoming out of the economic slowdown. According to official data released on Tuesday, the output of eight core infrastructure sectors contracted for the fourth consecutive month in November by 1.5%, with electricity generation falling 5.7%. Till December 15, power consumption was lower than in the year ago period. The consumption has then picked up.<\/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-308328","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\/308328","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=308328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}