{"id":349119,"date":"2020-05-01T11:26:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T05:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=349119"},"modified":"2020-05-01T12:37:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T07:07:05","slug":"indias-annual-power-demand-seen-falling-for-first-time-in-almost-four-decades-moodys-unit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-annual-power-demand-seen-falling-for-first-time-in-almost-four-decades-moodys-unit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s annual power demand seen falling for first time in almost four decades: Moody&#8217;s unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s electricity demand during the current financial year is seen falling for the first time in at least 36 years, ratings agency Moody&#8217;s unit ICRA said on Wednesday, a blow to utilities and state-run Coal India Ltd. <\/p>\n<p>ICRA expects annual electricity demand to fall 1% during the year ending March 2021 due to the impact of a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, ICRA said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>The decline would be the first since fiscal year 1985, and government data preceding that was unavailable. <\/p>\n<p>Power usage has fallen by almost a quarter since Prime Minister Narendra Modi enforced a nationwide lockdown starting March 25, forcing all industries except those deemed essential to shut down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s electricity demand during the current financial year is seen falling for the first time in at least 36 years, ratings agency Moody&#8217;s unit ICRA said on Wednesday, a blow to utilities and state-run Coal India Ltd. ICRA expects annual electricity demand to fall 1% during the year ending March 2021 due to the impact of a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, ICRA said in a statement. The decline would be the first since fiscal year 1985, and government data preceding that was unavailable. Power usage has fallen by almost a quarter since Prime Minister Narendra [&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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349119","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=349119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}