{"id":344179,"date":"2020-03-30T11:01:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T05:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=344179"},"modified":"2020-03-30T11:01:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T05:31:19","slug":"power-demand-dips-by-a-quarter-in-just-10-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-demand-dips-by-a-quarter-in-just-10-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Power demand dips by a quarter in just 10 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daily power demand in the country has fallen by a sharp 24% over the ten days to March 26, owing to reduced industrial and commercial activities, in the wake of the spread of Covid-19. Electricity requirement on March 26 was only 2,652 million units (MU), down from 3,507 MU on March 16.<\/p>\n<p>Power demand has grown at a meagre 2.2% Y-o-Y in the April-February period this fiscal, with electricity consumption contracting for the fourth straight month in November due to an extended monsoon and slowdown in economic activities. In February, the demand grew a robust 10.8% year-on-year, indicating a revival, but Covid-19 has since played the spoilsport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily power demand in the country has fallen by a sharp 24% over the ten days to March 26, owing to reduced industrial and commercial activities, in the wake of the spread of Covid-19. Electricity requirement on March 26 was only 2,652 million units (MU), down from 3,507 MU on March 16. Power demand has grown at a meagre 2.2% Y-o-Y in the April-February period this fiscal, with electricity consumption contracting for the fourth straight month in November due to an extended monsoon and slowdown in economic activities. In February, the demand grew a robust 10.8% year-on-year, indicating a revival, [&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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344179","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\/344179","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=344179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}