{"id":356782,"date":"2020-06-11T11:17:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T05:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=356782"},"modified":"2020-06-11T11:42:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T06:12:48","slug":"punjabs-power-consumption-reaches-9k-mw-to-peak-soon-with-paddy-sowing-getting-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/punjabs-power-consumption-reaches-9k-mw-to-peak-soon-with-paddy-sowing-getting-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab\u2019s power consumption reaches 9k MW, to peak soon with paddy sowing getting underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With unfolding of the Covid-19 \u2018unlock\u2019, Punjab\u2019s power consumption has touched 9,000 MW mark with 80 per cent of industrial and commercial activity having resumed in the state. And now with paddy transplantation getting underway from Wednesday, power consumption is set to reach its peak of the season by next week. It is expected that it will reach 12,000 MW by early next week as transplantation picks up.<\/p>\n<p>The demand for power had reached 6,800 MW on May 18, when industrial activity was allowed by the state government in the \u201clocked- in\u201d mode. After that there has been a consistent rise in power demand except for two-three days in May-end when the storm had hit the state and temperature had fallen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With unfolding of the Covid-19 \u2018unlock\u2019, Punjab\u2019s power consumption has touched 9,000 MW mark with 80 per cent of industrial and commercial activity having resumed in the state. And now with paddy transplantation getting underway from Wednesday, power consumption is set to reach its peak of the season by next week. It is expected that it will reach 12,000 MW by early next week as transplantation picks up. The demand for power had reached 6,800 MW on May 18, when industrial activity was allowed by the state government in the \u201clocked- in\u201d mode. After that there has been a consistent [&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-356782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356782","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=356782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}