{"id":345387,"date":"2020-04-06T10:38:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T05:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=345387"},"modified":"2020-04-06T11:20:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T05:50:23","slug":"modis-sunday-9pm-9-minute-blackout-indias-power-sector-gears-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/modis-sunday-9pm-9-minute-blackout-indias-power-sector-gears-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi&#8217;s Sunday, 9pm, 9-minute blackout: India\u2019s power sector gears up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s call for switching off lights for 9 minutes at 9 pm on Sunday may result in an electricity load reduction of around 13 giga watts (GW) on India\u2019s power grid, with current lighting load estimated at be 11,344 mega watt (MW).<\/p>\n<p>Experts believe that while the quantum of power demand reduction can be handled by the grid operator, the rate of change may pose a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Seized of the issue, state run Power System Operation Corp. Ltd (Posoco) that oversees India\u2019s electricity load management functions, in an advisory issued on Saturday, said \u201cIt is inferred that total domestic lighting load reduction at all-India level is anticipated to the tune of 12-13 GW. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s call for switching off lights for 9 minutes at 9 pm on Sunday may result in an electricity load reduction of around 13 giga watts (GW) on India\u2019s power grid, with current lighting load estimated at be 11,344 mega watt (MW). Experts believe that while the quantum of power demand reduction can be handled by the grid operator, the rate of change may pose a problem. Seized of the issue, state run Power System Operation Corp. Ltd (Posoco) that oversees India\u2019s electricity load management functions, in an advisory issued on Saturday, said \u201cIt is [&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-345387","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\/345387","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=345387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}