{"id":349290,"date":"2020-05-02T12:31:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T07:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=349290"},"modified":"2020-05-02T12:31:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T07:01:58","slug":"covid-19-lockdown-to-balloon-discom-losses-electricity-demand-to-fall-in-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-19-lockdown-to-balloon-discom-losses-electricity-demand-to-fall-in-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 lockdown to balloon discom losses, electricity demand to fall in decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: One month of nationwide lockdown has done more damage to the power sector than what mismanagement by state utilities failed to do in years.<\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 outbreak and the subsequent lockdown has squeezed power demand sharply in March and April and the fall has been such sharp that demand for full year 2020-21 is set to report a 1 per cent decline, first time in almost 36 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: One month of nationwide lockdown has done more damage to the power sector than what mismanagement by state utilities failed to do in years. The COVID-19 outbreak and the subsequent lockdown has squeezed power demand sharply in March and April and the fall has been such sharp that demand for full year 2020-21 is set to report a 1 per cent decline, first time in almost 36 years.<\/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-349290","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\/349290","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=349290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}