{"id":345617,"date":"2020-04-06T12:24:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T06:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=345617"},"modified":"2020-04-06T12:24:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T06:54:38","slug":"amidst-fears-of-grid-failure-kseb-formulates-contingency-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/amidst-fears-of-grid-failure-kseb-formulates-contingency-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Amidst fears of grid failure, KSEB formulates contingency plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: Amidst concerns raised by power managers across the country about Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s call to turn off lights and observe nine minute candlelight vigil at 9 pm on Sunday, the Kerala State Electricity Board has formulated a contingency plan to avoid grid failure due to the sudden drop and rise in power consumption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf all the 85 lakh domestic consumers switch off lights at their house at 9 pm on Sunday, there will be a sudden drop in consumption which we peg around 400 MW. Tamil Nadu will experience a drop of 2,000 MW while the country will be facing a decline of 20,000 MW in consumption. This will lead to a grid crash and the country will plunge into darkness. So power managers are working out a plan to avoid the worst scenario,\u201d KSEB chairman N S Pillai told TNIE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: Amidst concerns raised by power managers across the country about Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s call to turn off lights and observe nine minute candlelight vigil at 9 pm on Sunday, the Kerala State Electricity Board has formulated a contingency plan to avoid grid failure due to the sudden drop and rise in power consumption. \u201cIf all the 85 lakh domestic consumers switch off lights at their house at 9 pm on Sunday, there will be a sudden drop in consumption which we peg around 400 MW. Tamil Nadu will experience a drop of 2,000 MW while the country will [&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":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345617","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=345617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}