{"id":371253,"date":"2020-09-02T10:19:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T04:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=371253"},"modified":"2020-09-02T10:44:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T05:14:10","slug":"indias-power-output-falls-for-sixth-straight-month-in-august-show-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-power-output-falls-for-sixth-straight-month-in-august-show-data\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s power output falls for sixth straight month in August, show data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI (Reuters) &#8211; India&#8217;s electricity generation fell for the sixth straight month in August, provisional government data showed, driven by a slump in power use in industrial western states such as Maharashtra and Gujarat in the second half of the month. <\/p>\n<p>August power generation fell 0.9%, a Reuters analysis of daily load despatch data from federal grid operator POSOCO showed, slower than the 1.8% decline seen in July. <\/p>\n<p>In the second half of August, electricity generation declined 4.5%, compared with a 2.6% increase during the first fifteen days of the month. <\/p>\n<p>Power use during the second half of August in states such as Maharashtra and Gujarat, among the country&#8217;s largest electricity consumers, declined by about 15% each, compared to near parity compared to August 2019 during the first 15 days of the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI (Reuters) &#8211; India&#8217;s electricity generation fell for the sixth straight month in August, provisional government data showed, driven by a slump in power use in industrial western states such as Maharashtra and Gujarat in the second half of the month. August power generation fell 0.9%, a Reuters analysis of daily load despatch data from federal grid operator POSOCO showed, slower than the 1.8% decline seen in July. In the second half of August, electricity generation declined 4.5%, compared with a 2.6% increase during the first fifteen days of the month. Power use during the second half of August in [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371253","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=371253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}