{"id":344211,"date":"2020-03-30T11:21:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T05:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=344211"},"modified":"2020-03-30T11:21:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T05:51:43","slug":"countrys-electricity-use-falls-to-lowest-in-five-years-due-to-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/countrys-electricity-use-falls-to-lowest-in-five-years-due-to-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Country&#8217;s electricity use falls to lowest in five years due to lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: India&#8217;s electricity use plummeted to levels last recorded in March 2015, government data showed on Saturday, due to a nationwide lockdown to arrest the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>India used 2.59 billion units of electricity on March 27 &#8211; the third day of the three-week national lockdown ordained by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. That was lower by nearly a fourth compared with the average consumption during the first three weeks of March before the lockdown was enforced.<\/p>\n<p>The energy hungry nation&#8217;s power consumption was lower on March 1, 2015 &#8211; when the country&#8217;s total electricity generation capacity was more than 25% lower than the current potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: India&#8217;s electricity use plummeted to levels last recorded in March 2015, government data showed on Saturday, due to a nationwide lockdown to arrest the spread of the coronavirus. India used 2.59 billion units of electricity on March 27 &#8211; the third day of the three-week national lockdown ordained by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. That was lower by nearly a fourth compared with the average consumption during the first three weeks of March before the lockdown was enforced. The energy hungry nation&#8217;s power consumption was lower on March 1, 2015 &#8211; when the country&#8217;s total electricity generation capacity was more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344211","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}