{"id":354121,"date":"2020-05-29T10:26:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T04:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=354121"},"modified":"2020-05-29T10:26:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T04:56:56","slug":"power-demand-perks-up-as-mercury-soars-industrial-activities-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-demand-perks-up-as-mercury-soars-industrial-activities-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Power demand perks up as mercury soars, industrial activities rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Heat wave coupled with higher commercial and industrial activities under lockdown 4.0 has pushed peak power demand closer to the normal level this week as compared to May last year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the power ministry data, the peak power demand met during May so far was recorded at 166.42 GW on May 26. In the same month a year ago, the peak power demand was 182.53 GW. This shows a year-on-year decline of 8.8 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>In the first fortnight of the month, the peak power demand met was recorded at 141.87 GW on May 15, registering a slump of over 22 per cent compared to the highest level in the same period of May 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Heat wave coupled with higher commercial and industrial activities under lockdown 4.0 has pushed peak power demand closer to the normal level this week as compared to May last year. According to the power ministry data, the peak power demand met during May so far was recorded at 166.42 GW on May 26. In the same month a year ago, the peak power demand was 182.53 GW. This shows a year-on-year decline of 8.8 per cent. In the first fortnight of the month, the peak power demand met was recorded at 141.87 GW on May 15, registering a [&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-354121","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\/354121","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=354121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}