{"id":345315,"date":"2020-04-04T11:43:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T06:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=345315"},"modified":"2020-04-04T11:43:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T06:13:35","slug":"explained-grid-challenges-to-the-sunday-night-blackout-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/explained-grid-challenges-to-the-sunday-night-blackout-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: Grid challenges to the Sunday night blackout plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the 5 April lights out about?<\/p>\n<p>In his address to the nation on Friday morning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked citizens to turn the lights off in their homes for 9 minutes on Sunday (5 April) starting at 9pm. Instead, \u201cstand at your doors or in you balconies, and light candles or diyas, (or shine) torches or mobile flashlights for 9 minutes&#8221; as a show of unity in the nation\u2019s fight against covid-19 pandemic. While this is simple gesture for households to follow, the national electricity grid &#8211; which meets India\u2019s power needs &#8211; has a lot of work to do maintain reliable power supply during and after this period.<\/p>\n<p>Why is this complicated to manage?<\/p>\n<p>India has a baseload power demand of roughly 160 gigawatts (GW), that is 160,000 megawatts (MW). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the 5 April lights out about? In his address to the nation on Friday morning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked citizens to turn the lights off in their homes for 9 minutes on Sunday (5 April) starting at 9pm. Instead, \u201cstand at your doors or in you balconies, and light candles or diyas, (or shine) torches or mobile flashlights for 9 minutes&#8221; as a show of unity in the nation\u2019s fight against covid-19 pandemic. While this is simple gesture for households to follow, the national electricity grid &#8211; which meets India\u2019s power needs &#8211; has a lot of [&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-345315","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\/345315","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=345315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}