{"id":345971,"date":"2020-04-08T11:43:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T06:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=345971"},"modified":"2020-04-08T11:43:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T06:13:04","slug":"lockdown-pain-power-demand-falls-headlong-down-30-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lockdown-pain-power-demand-falls-headlong-down-30-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown pain: Power demand falls headlong; down 30% now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After recording an annual growth of 1.3% in FY20, which itself was the lowest in six years, daily power demand in the country in the first six days of FY21 has fallen by a sharp 26% year-on-year (y-o-y), owing to reduced industrial and commercial activities in the wake of the spread of Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Power demand had started to fall gradually since the beginning of March \u2014 in the first 15 days of the month, electricity requirement was 3.6% lower than the same in the year-ago period. However, since the beginning of the lockdown from March 24, demand started falling much more sharply, with in all days since then, the y-o-y fall being 20% or steeper (see chart).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After recording an annual growth of 1.3% in FY20, which itself was the lowest in six years, daily power demand in the country in the first six days of FY21 has fallen by a sharp 26% year-on-year (y-o-y), owing to reduced industrial and commercial activities in the wake of the spread of Covid-19. Power demand had started to fall gradually since the beginning of March \u2014 in the first 15 days of the month, electricity requirement was 3.6% lower than the same in the year-ago period. However, since the beginning of the lockdown from March 24, demand started falling much [&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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345971","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=345971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}