{"id":348920,"date":"2020-04-30T12:25:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T06:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=348920"},"modified":"2020-04-30T13:16:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T07:46:58","slug":"covid-19-impact-indian-electricity-demand-to-decline-1-per-cent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-19-impact-indian-electricity-demand-to-decline-1-per-cent\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 impact: Indian electricity demand to decline 1 per cent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The all-India electricity demand during financial year 2021 is likely to decline by about 1 per cent due to the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown in its wake. <\/p>\n<p>According to a power sector update by rating firm ICRA, the power distribution companies (Discoms) in the country are likely to take a \u20b920,000-crore loss and are exposed to other possible downsides from any extension of the lockdown. <\/p>\n<p>Outlining the power sector outlook at a web conference, ICRA researchers stated that thermal PLF is likely to decline to 54 per cent in FY2021 against 56 per cent in FY2020 in a base-case scenario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The all-India electricity demand during financial year 2021 is likely to decline by about 1 per cent due to the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown in its wake. According to a power sector update by rating firm ICRA, the power distribution companies (Discoms) in the country are likely to take a \u20b920,000-crore loss and are exposed to other possible downsides from any extension of the lockdown. Outlining the power sector outlook at a web conference, ICRA researchers stated that thermal PLF is likely to decline to 54 per cent in FY2021 against 56 per cent in FY2020 in a base-case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348920","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}