{"id":345614,"date":"2020-04-06T12:23:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T06:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=345614"},"modified":"2020-04-06T12:23:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T06:53:45","slug":"power-demand-dips-27-but-grid-holds-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-demand-dips-27-but-grid-holds-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Power demand dips 27% but grid holds up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Power demand slumped 27% from 117 giga watt (gw) to 85 gw within about five minutes after 9 pm on Sunday as people switched off their home lights and lit up diyas (traditional earthen lamps) in response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s lights-out call to show solidarity in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.<br \/>\nNational grid operator POSOCO and PowerGrid, the central utility that builds the national network, kept a hawk\u2019s eye on the situation throughout the day, maintaining the northern region grid frequency at the ideal level of 50 Hz for the better part.<br \/>\nThe robust protocol set by POSOCO to ensure grid stability kicked in about half an hour before zero hour under the hawk eye of power minister R K Singh and power secretary S N Sahai, who had stationed themselves at the National Load Despatch Centre (NLDC). The grid frequency was allowed to drop below 50 Hz about 15 minutes before 9 pm and then a tad below 49 Hz as generation was gradually ramped down. The lower frequency gave the headroom for generation units to gradually reduce output.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Power demand slumped 27% from 117 giga watt (gw) to 85 gw within about five minutes after 9 pm on Sunday as people switched off their home lights and lit up diyas (traditional earthen lamps) in response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s lights-out call to show solidarity in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. National grid operator POSOCO and PowerGrid, the central utility that builds the national network, kept a hawk\u2019s eye on the situation throughout the day, maintaining the northern region grid frequency at the ideal level of 50 Hz for the better part. The robust protocol [&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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345614","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=345614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}