{"id":345473,"date":"2020-04-06T10:51:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T05:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=345473"},"modified":"2020-04-06T10:51:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T05:21:08","slug":"grid-managers-seamlessly-handles-32gw-fall-and-rise-in-demand-within-20-minutes-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/grid-managers-seamlessly-handles-32gw-fall-and-rise-in-demand-within-20-minutes-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Grid managers seamlessly handles 32GW fall and rise in demand within 20 minutes on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers at electricity load despatch centres managed a total power demand dip of almost 32 GW between 8.49 PM and 9.09 PM, on Sunday, nearly three times the estimated fall by the national power gridNSE 1.03 %. Power demand fell as citizens responded to Prime Minister, Narendra Modi&#8217;s call of switching off lights and lighting candles to express their support for the battle against COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Just as citizens started switching lights back on, power consumption started rising. Power minister, RK Singh, tweeted: \u201cDemand in the grid came down by 32000 MW within a few minutes but the frequency and voltage were maintained within the normal range. Demand went down from 1,17,300 Megawatts at 20:49 hrs to 85300 Megawatts till 21:09 hrs; Then it started increasing. Frequency was maintained within a band of 49.7 to 50. 26 Hz, which means the voltage was kept stable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers at electricity load despatch centres managed a total power demand dip of almost 32 GW between 8.49 PM and 9.09 PM, on Sunday, nearly three times the estimated fall by the national power gridNSE 1.03 %. Power demand fell as citizens responded to Prime Minister, Narendra Modi&#8217;s call of switching off lights and lighting candles to express their support for the battle against COVID-19 pandemic. Just as citizens started switching lights back on, power consumption started rising. Power minister, RK Singh, tweeted: \u201cDemand in the grid came down by 32000 MW within a few minutes but the frequency and [&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-345473","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\/345473","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=345473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}