{"id":353954,"date":"2020-05-28T11:54:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T06:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=353954"},"modified":"2020-05-28T12:06:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T06:36:32","slug":"heat-wave-restart-of-industrial-activity-push-power-demand-close-to-last-years-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/heat-wave-restart-of-industrial-activity-push-power-demand-close-to-last-years-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave, restart of industrial activity push power demand close to last year\u2019s levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A steady recovery in electricity demand, which picked up pace after May 10, offers the first definitive indicator of the gradual return to normalcy following the extended lockdown. <\/p>\n<p>After a sudden plunge nine weeks ago, electricity demand is now within touching distance of the corresponding figures for last year. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, Tuesday\u2019s peak demand figure \u2014 the highest power demand met during the day \u2014 actually crossed the level of last year, the first time this has happened since March 22. <\/p>\n<p>The more-relevant \u2018energy met\u2019 figure for May 26 \u2014an indicator of overall electricity consumption \u2014 was marginally short of the figure clocked on the same day last year, according to the latest data compiled by state-owned grid manager Power System Operation Corporation (POSOCO) Ltd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A steady recovery in electricity demand, which picked up pace after May 10, offers the first definitive indicator of the gradual return to normalcy following the extended lockdown. After a sudden plunge nine weeks ago, electricity demand is now within touching distance of the corresponding figures for last year. In fact, Tuesday\u2019s peak demand figure \u2014 the highest power demand met during the day \u2014 actually crossed the level of last year, the first time this has happened since March 22. The more-relevant \u2018energy met\u2019 figure for May 26 \u2014an indicator of overall electricity consumption \u2014 was marginally short of [&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-353954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353954","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=353954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}