{"id":354464,"date":"2020-05-30T11:31:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T06:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=354464"},"modified":"2020-05-30T11:31:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T06:01:40","slug":"punjab-haryana-rajasthan-power-demand-significantly-up-gujarat-maharashtra-lag-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/punjab-haryana-rajasthan-power-demand-significantly-up-gujarat-maharashtra-lag-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan power demand significantly up; Gujarat, Maharashtra lag behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Agricultural and domestic consumers in north India are pushing India\u2019s electricity demand to last year\u2019s level amid the Covid-19 pandemic, while industrial states like Gujarat and Maharashtra wait for further easing of lockdown restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The demand for electricity is inching closer to last year&#8217;s level but experts believe it is mostly due to hot weather conditions, particularly in plains of northern India.<\/p>\n<p>A state-wise analysis showed that the consumption of electricity in states like Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan has increased over last year- in both peak-hour demand and energy consumed per day terms, a quick comparison between electricity demand (both peak-hour and energy met) on May 26 this year with May 24, 2019\u2014a corresponding working day last year \u2013 and average demand in the week of May 20-26, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Agricultural and domestic consumers in north India are pushing India\u2019s electricity demand to last year\u2019s level amid the Covid-19 pandemic, while industrial states like Gujarat and Maharashtra wait for further easing of lockdown restrictions. The demand for electricity is inching closer to last year&#8217;s level but experts believe it is mostly due to hot weather conditions, particularly in plains of northern India. A state-wise analysis showed that the consumption of electricity in states like Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan has increased over last year- in both peak-hour demand and energy consumed per day terms, a quick comparison between electricity [&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-354464","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\/354464","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=354464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}