{"id":345209,"date":"2020-04-04T10:28:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T04:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=345209"},"modified":"2020-04-04T10:28:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T04:58:44","slug":"indias-power-demand-falls-over-25-pc-to-125-81-gw-on-april-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-power-demand-falls-over-25-pc-to-125-81-gw-on-april-2\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s power demand falls over 25 pc to 125.81 GW on April 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India&#8217;s peak power demand slipped over 25 per cent to 125.81 GW on Thursday compared 168.32 GW on April 2 amid the lockdown to contain COVID-19 outbreak, showed power ministry data. In actual terms, the demand fell around 43 GW on Thursday compared to the same day a year ago. However, the data showed that peak power demand met has stabilised around 120 GW after March 22.<\/p>\n<p>The government has imposed 3-week lockdown to fight the pandemic from March 24.<\/p>\n<p>The demand was down mainly due to lower requirements from industry and state power distribution companies (discoms) across the country due to the lockdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India&#8217;s peak power demand slipped over 25 per cent to 125.81 GW on Thursday compared 168.32 GW on April 2 amid the lockdown to contain COVID-19 outbreak, showed power ministry data. In actual terms, the demand fell around 43 GW on Thursday compared to the same day a year ago. However, the data showed that peak power demand met has stabilised around 120 GW after March 22. The government has imposed 3-week lockdown to fight the pandemic from March 24. The demand was down mainly due to lower requirements from industry and state power distribution companies (discoms) across [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345209","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\/345209","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=345209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}