{"id":345802,"date":"2020-04-07T12:33:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T07:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=345802"},"modified":"2020-04-07T12:33:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T07:03:14","slug":"power-grid-saw-1200-mw-drop-in-sundays-lights-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-grid-saw-1200-mw-drop-in-sundays-lights-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Power grid saw 1,200 MW drop in Sunday\u2019s lights-out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: There was a \u201creduction of 1200MW on the state grid during the switch-off of domestic lights for nine minutes from 9 pm on Sunday,\u201d additional chief secretary, energy department, Mahendra Jain told TNIE.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was managed well as we had planned for it. Calibrating of hydel power; starting three-phase supply to rural feeders earlier than normal; keeping thermal power at bar and other technical interventions worked for us,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>The drop was much lower than what the energy department had anticipated and calculated &#8212; a 700-800MW drop in power usage, against consumption of 7000MW &#8212; which left the energy department surprised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: There was a \u201creduction of 1200MW on the state grid during the switch-off of domestic lights for nine minutes from 9 pm on Sunday,\u201d additional chief secretary, energy department, Mahendra Jain told TNIE. \u201cIt was managed well as we had planned for it. Calibrating of hydel power; starting three-phase supply to rural feeders earlier than normal; keeping thermal power at bar and other technical interventions worked for us,\u201d he explained. The drop was much lower than what the energy department had anticipated and calculated &#8212; a 700-800MW drop in power usage, against consumption of 7000MW &#8212; which left the [&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-345802","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\/345802","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=345802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}