{"id":344824,"date":"2020-04-02T10:32:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T05:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=344824"},"modified":"2020-04-02T10:46:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T05:16:02","slug":"as-lockdown-bites-electricity-usage-falls-9-2-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/as-lockdown-bites-electricity-usage-falls-9-2-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"As lockdown bites, electricity usage falls 9.2% in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s electricity use fell 9.2 per cent in March, provisional government data showed on Wednesday, as consumption dropped for the first time in three months due to a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Consumers used 100.2 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in March, compared with 110.33 billion units a year earlier, an analysis of load despatch data by state-run Power System Operation Corp Ltd (POSOCO) showed.<\/p>\n<p>That was India&#8217;s fastest pace of decline in consumption since October when power use fell at its steepest in over 12 years due to a broad economic slowdown.<\/p>\n<p>As the scare of the spread of the coronavirus mounted, Prime Minister Narendra Modi first imposed a partial lockdown on March 22, following which states progressively increased restrictions culminating in a national three-week shutdown starting March 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s electricity use fell 9.2 per cent in March, provisional government data showed on Wednesday, as consumption dropped for the first time in three months due to a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Consumers used 100.2 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in March, compared with 110.33 billion units a year earlier, an analysis of load despatch data by state-run Power System Operation Corp Ltd (POSOCO) showed. That was India&#8217;s fastest pace of decline in consumption since October when power use fell at its steepest in over 12 years due to a broad economic slowdown. As the scare of [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344824","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=344824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}