{"id":358229,"date":"2020-06-19T12:35:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T07:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=358229"},"modified":"2020-06-19T12:35:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T07:05:27","slug":"delhi-clocks-peak-power-demand-of-5985-mw-seasons-highest-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-clocks-peak-power-demand-of-5985-mw-seasons-highest-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi clocks peak power demand of 5,985 MW, season\u2019s highest yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi\u2019s peak power demand clocked 5,985 MW on Wednesday night, the season\u2019s highest so far, said officials of electricity distribution companies on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>They attributed the rise in demand to soaring temperatures. On Wednesday, the mercury in most places in the city was recorded above the 40 degrees Celsius-mark.<\/p>\n<p>The peak power demand clocked 5,985 MW at 11.12 pm on Wednesday, pipping the season\u2019s previous high of 5,899 MW recorded on June 16, the officials said, adding that the peak demand was 5,925 MW at 3.34 pm on Thursday.   BSES distribution companies (discoms) BRPL and BYPL successfully met peak power demands of 2,720 MW and 1,341 MW in their respective areas.  Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (TPDDL) met a peak power demand of 1,713 MW, said a TPDDL spokesperson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi\u2019s peak power demand clocked 5,985 MW on Wednesday night, the season\u2019s highest so far, said officials of electricity distribution companies on Thursday. They attributed the rise in demand to soaring temperatures. On Wednesday, the mercury in most places in the city was recorded above the 40 degrees Celsius-mark. The peak power demand clocked 5,985 MW at 11.12 pm on Wednesday, pipping the season\u2019s previous high of 5,899 MW recorded on June 16, the officials said, adding that the peak demand was 5,925 MW at 3.34 pm on Thursday. BSES distribution companies (discoms) BRPL and BYPL successfully met peak power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358229","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}