{"id":344326,"date":"2020-03-31T10:41:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T05:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=344326"},"modified":"2020-03-31T10:41:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T05:11:42","slug":"lockdown-power-demand-falls-30-65gw-capacity-backed-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lockdown-power-demand-falls-30-65gw-capacity-backed-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown: Power demand falls 30%, 65GW capacity backed down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: Power demand has fallen 30% since the start of the lockdown on March 25, compared to a year ago, and may fall further, forcing 65 GW of capacity to back down.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the industrial and commercial demand has vanished as markets, and offices are shut, and trains have been cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>Daily power demand dipped to an average 112 GW, lowest in at least six years, from 160 GW a year ago. Demand for spot power fell 40%, bringing rates down to Rs 2 per unit.<\/p>\n<p>This is making thermal plants run sub-optimally, with capacity utilisation likely to have fallen to 60% from 40%, said Sabyasachi Majumdar, group head at ratings firm ICRA.<\/p>\n<p>NTPC has already backed down around 15GW of its 50 GW thermal capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: Power demand has fallen 30% since the start of the lockdown on March 25, compared to a year ago, and may fall further, forcing 65 GW of capacity to back down. Most of the industrial and commercial demand has vanished as markets, and offices are shut, and trains have been cancelled. Daily power demand dipped to an average 112 GW, lowest in at least six years, from 160 GW a year ago. Demand for spot power fell 40%, bringing rates down to Rs 2 per unit. This is making thermal plants run sub-optimally, with capacity utilisation likely to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"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-344326","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\/344326","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}