{"id":345573,"date":"2020-04-06T11:52:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T06:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=345573"},"modified":"2020-04-06T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T06:22:10","slug":"those-long-9-minutes-when-indias-power-grid-operators-held-their-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/those-long-9-minutes-when-indias-power-grid-operators-held-their-breath\/","title":{"rendered":"Those long 9 minutes&#8211;when India\u2019s power grid operators held their breath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India on Sunday pulled off a feat, with many experts hailing the 9-pm-9-minute blackout as good as a miracle in terms of electricity grid management. As 9 pm neared, officials at the state-owned Power System Operation Corp Ltd (Posoco) that oversees India\u2019s critical electricity load management functions, National Load Despatch Centre (NLDC) and state load despatch centres (SLDCs) awaited with bated breath.<\/p>\n<p>To compound matters, the estimated electricity load reduction went off the charts and was at 32 giga watts (GW)\u2014enough to meet the entire power demand of Pakistan. It was earlier projected to be around 13 GW.<\/p>\n<p>According to a preliminary report by the government late Sunday night reviewed by Mint, \u201cThe anticipated reduction in all India demand during this period of 9 minutes was around 12000\u201314000 MW considering that only lights would be switched off.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India on Sunday pulled off a feat, with many experts hailing the 9-pm-9-minute blackout as good as a miracle in terms of electricity grid management. As 9 pm neared, officials at the state-owned Power System Operation Corp Ltd (Posoco) that oversees India\u2019s critical electricity load management functions, National Load Despatch Centre (NLDC) and state load despatch centres (SLDCs) awaited with bated breath. To compound matters, the estimated electricity load reduction went off the charts and was at 32 giga watts (GW)\u2014enough to meet the entire power demand of Pakistan. It was earlier projected to be around 13 GW. [&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-345573","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\/345573","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=345573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}