{"id":345400,"date":"2020-04-06T10:43:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T05:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=345400"},"modified":"2020-04-06T11:22:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T05:52:24","slug":"price-of-traded-power-during-sundays-blackout-crashes-to-69-paise-per-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/price-of-traded-power-during-sundays-blackout-crashes-to-69-paise-per-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Price of traded power during Sunday\u2019s blackout crashes to 69 paise per unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The expected fall in India\u2019s electricity demand at 9 pm on Sunday has resulted in a price crash for the particular time slot on the power exchange market.<\/p>\n<p>According to data collated by the Indian Energy Exchange (IEX), power demand has come down, resulting in a price of 69 paise per unit for electricity traded for the 9 pm to 9.15 pm time slot for 5 April delivery. In comparison, the price per unit of electricity for the same time period for Saturday (4 April) was \u20b92.90 per unit.<\/p>\n<p>A day has a total of 96 trading blocks of 15 minutes each.<\/p>\n<p>Mint reported on Saturday how Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s call for switching off lights for 9 minutes at 9 pm on Sunday could 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The expected fall in India\u2019s electricity demand at 9 pm on Sunday has resulted in a price crash for the particular time slot on the power exchange market. According to data collated by the Indian Energy Exchange (IEX), power demand has come down, resulting in a price of 69 paise per unit for electricity traded for the 9 pm to 9.15 pm time slot for 5 April delivery. In comparison, the price per unit of electricity for the same time period for Saturday (4 April) was \u20b92.90 per unit. A day has a total of 96 trading blocks [&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-345400","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\/345400","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=345400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}