{"id":343485,"date":"2020-03-26T11:45:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T06:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=343485"},"modified":"2020-03-26T11:45:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T06:15:12","slug":"covid-19-lockdown-impact-power-demand-drops-as-offices-stay-plugged-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-19-lockdown-impact-power-demand-drops-as-offices-stay-plugged-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 lockdown impact: Power demand drops as offices stay plugged out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India\u2019s electricity demand plummeted this week as factories and offices were forced to close due to the Covid-19 lockdown. Peak demand touched a low of 135 GW on Sunday against an average of about 155 GW in March last year, pushing spot power prices on the Indian Energy ExchangeNSE 1.24 % (IEX) to a near-record low.<\/p>\n<p>The price discovered on the IEX Day Ahead Market for delivery on Wednesday was at \u20b91.95 per unit. The spot power price hit a low of \u20b91.90 per unit in June 2017 due to excessive rainfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India\u2019s electricity demand plummeted this week as factories and offices were forced to close due to the Covid-19 lockdown. Peak demand touched a low of 135 GW on Sunday against an average of about 155 GW in March last year, pushing spot power prices on the Indian Energy ExchangeNSE 1.24 % (IEX) to a near-record low. The price discovered on the IEX Day Ahead Market for delivery on Wednesday was at \u20b91.95 per unit. The spot power price hit a low of \u20b91.90 per unit in June 2017 due to excessive rainfall.<\/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-343485","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\/343485","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=343485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}