{"id":345470,"date":"2020-04-06T10:49:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T05:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=345470"},"modified":"2020-04-06T10:49:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T05:19:56","slug":"pm-modis-9-pm-9-mins-appeal-will-indias-electric-grid-be-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pm-modis-9-pm-9-mins-appeal-will-indias-electric-grid-be-in-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi&#8217;s &#8216;9 pm-9 mins&#8217; appeal: Will India&#8217;s electric grid be in trouble?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National grid potentially collapse?<br \/>\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi has requested Indians to turn off their lights at 9 PM on April 5, and light a candle or a lamp to dispel the darkness spread by coronavirus and show a collective resolve to defeat the disease. While the symbolic action to ward off Covid-19\u2019s darkness is laudable, there are concerns about the national grid potentially collapsing.<\/p>\n<p>The electric grid<br \/>\nAccording to a report by PTI, Power System Operation Corp Ltd &#8211; the agency responsible for managing the grid &#8211; has mapped all India lighting load and estimated loss of power demand at 12-13 gigawatts (out of a total consumption of 125-126 GW). This is an unprecedented action and will need careful handling through hydro and gas resources.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike normal operation, this reduction in load of 12-13 GW would happen in 2-4 minutes and recover nine minutes later &#8212; within 2-4 minutes. This sharp reduction in load and recovery, which is unprecedented, will need to be handled through hydro and gas resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National grid potentially collapse? Prime Minister Narendra Modi has requested Indians to turn off their lights at 9 PM on April 5, and light a candle or a lamp to dispel the darkness spread by coronavirus and show a collective resolve to defeat the disease. While the symbolic action to ward off Covid-19\u2019s darkness is laudable, there are concerns about the national grid potentially collapsing. The electric grid According to a report by PTI, Power System Operation Corp Ltd &#8211; the agency responsible for managing the grid &#8211; has mapped all India lighting load and estimated loss of power demand [&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-345470","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\/345470","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=345470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}