{"id":363894,"date":"2020-07-21T10:31:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T05:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=363894"},"modified":"2020-07-21T10:49:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T05:19:56","slug":"pan-india-electricity-demand-to-contract-by-5-6-0-in-fy21-due-to-local-lockdowns-icra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pan-india-electricity-demand-to-contract-by-5-6-0-in-fy21-due-to-local-lockdowns-icra\/","title":{"rendered":"Pan-India electricity demand to contract by 5-6.0% in FY21 due to local lockdowns: ICRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Re-imposition of lockdown restrictions in many parts across the country may lead to decline in the all India electricity demand by 5-6% in FY2021, rating agency ICRA NSE -0.25 % said on Monday<\/p>\n<p>In April, ICRA estimated 1% de-growth in power demand in the current financial year.<\/p>\n<p>The revised energy demand de-growth estimate assumes demand decline of 3.5 \u2013 4.0% in Q2 and Q3 FY2021 and a marginal recovery of about 1% in Q4 FY2021, given the slower pace of recovery expected in industrial and commercial activity in the country, an official statement said. <\/p>\n<p>This in turn is expected to suppress the thermal power plants utilisation on an all-India level to about 50-51% in FY2021 against rating agency\u2019s earlier estimate of 54% and from 56% in FY2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Re-imposition of lockdown restrictions in many parts across the country may lead to decline in the all India electricity demand by 5-6% in FY2021, rating agency ICRA NSE -0.25 % said on Monday In April, ICRA estimated 1% de-growth in power demand in the current financial year. The revised energy demand de-growth estimate assumes demand decline of 3.5 \u2013 4.0% in Q2 and Q3 FY2021 and a marginal recovery of about 1% in Q4 FY2021, given the slower pace of recovery expected in industrial and commercial activity in the country, an official statement said. This in turn is [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363894","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\/363894","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=363894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}