{"id":354116,"date":"2020-05-29T10:25:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T04:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=354116"},"modified":"2020-05-29T10:25:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T04:55:06","slug":"households-driving-up-power-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/households-driving-up-power-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Households driving up power demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Rural India and urban households are driving up the consumption for electricity and liquid fuels with gradual increase in economic activity but demand remains weak in industrialised regions.<\/p>\n<p>Peak-hour electricity demand in Punjab last Tuesday was 15% higher at 8,097 megawatts compared to a year ago. Consumption is higher by 3-5% in Haryana and Rajasthan also, but Gujarat, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, which have a high number of Covid cases, are lagging behind as industries are yet to operate in full capacity. In the union territories of Dadra &amp; Nagar Haveli, power consumption fell 48%, while in Daman &amp; Diu it fell 37%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Rural India and urban households are driving up the consumption for electricity and liquid fuels with gradual increase in economic activity but demand remains weak in industrialised regions. Peak-hour electricity demand in Punjab last Tuesday was 15% higher at 8,097 megawatts compared to a year ago. Consumption is higher by 3-5% in Haryana and Rajasthan also, but Gujarat, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, which have a high number of Covid cases, are lagging behind as industries are yet to operate in full capacity. In the union territories of Dadra &amp; Nagar Haveli, power consumption fell 48%, while in Daman [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354116","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=354116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}