{"id":345475,"date":"2020-04-06T10:51:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T05:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=345475"},"modified":"2020-04-06T10:51:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T05:21:29","slug":"power-demand-dipped-26-gw-as-citizens-switch-off-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-demand-dipped-26-gw-as-citizens-switch-off-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Power demand dipped 26 GW as citizens switch off lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: Almost 26 GW of demand dropped between 9 PM and 9.15 PM on Sunday. Around 16.6 GW of power demand dropped between 9 PM and 9.05 PM when citizens started observing Prime Minister, Narendra Modi\u2019s call to switch off lights and light candles. In the next ten minutes another 9 GW power demand dropped, taking the total fall between 9 PM and 9.15 PM to almost 26 GW. Demand started to rise shortly after 9.15 PM.<\/p>\n<p>The national power gridNSE 1.03 % was prepared for the fall in demand and has been gradually scaling down thermal power generation in steps since 7.30 PM. In tandem power generation from gas-based and hydel generation units were being scaled up to maintain the balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: Almost 26 GW of demand dropped between 9 PM and 9.15 PM on Sunday. Around 16.6 GW of power demand dropped between 9 PM and 9.05 PM when citizens started observing Prime Minister, Narendra Modi\u2019s call to switch off lights and light candles. In the next ten minutes another 9 GW power demand dropped, taking the total fall between 9 PM and 9.15 PM to almost 26 GW. Demand started to rise shortly after 9.15 PM. The national power gridNSE 1.03 % was prepared for the fall in demand and has been gradually scaling down thermal power generation in [&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-345475","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\/345475","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=345475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}