{"id":341697,"date":"2020-03-12T17:32:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T12:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=341697"},"modified":"2020-03-12T17:32:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T12:02:53","slug":"power-demand-grows-2-1-pc-in-april-february-this-fiscal-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-demand-grows-2-1-pc-in-april-february-this-fiscal-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Power demand grows 2.1 pc in April-February this fiscal: Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power demand in the country grew 2.1 per cent in April-February this fiscal to 1190.74 billion units (BU) from 1166.08 BU in the same period a year ago, Parliament was informed on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>During 2018-19, the power demand grew 5 per cent to 1274.59 BU from 1213.32 BU in the previous fiscal, Power Minister R K Singh said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.<\/p>\n<p>The power demand grew 6.2 per cent in 2017-18.<\/p>\n<p>The minister informed the House that there has been no decline in electricity demand as a whole and the overall energy requirement has been growing with commensurate growth in energy supplied also.<\/p>\n<p>The electricity supply grew 2.2 per cent to 1184.67 BU in April- February this fiscal from 1159.17 BU in the same period of 2018-19.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, power supply grew 5.2 per cent at 1267.52 BU in 2018-19 from 1204.69 BU in 2017-18.<\/p>\n<p>The power supply grew 6.1 per cent in 2017-18 year-on-year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power demand in the country grew 2.1 per cent in April-February this fiscal to 1190.74 billion units (BU) from 1166.08 BU in the same period a year ago, Parliament was informed on Thursday. During 2018-19, the power demand grew 5 per cent to 1274.59 BU from 1213.32 BU in the previous fiscal, Power Minister R K Singh said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha. The power demand grew 6.2 per cent in 2017-18. The minister informed the House that there has been no decline in electricity demand as a whole and the overall energy requirement has been growing [&hellip;]<\/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":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341697","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=341697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}