{"id":371430,"date":"2020-09-03T08:35:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T03:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=371430"},"modified":"2020-09-03T09:13:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T03:43:06","slug":"electricity-demand-improves-to-98-of-pre-covid-19-level-in-august-icra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/electricity-demand-improves-to-98-of-pre-covid-19-level-in-august-icra\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity demand improves to 98% of pre-Covid-19 level in August: ICRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Led by recovery in rural areas, demand for electricity in the country improved to about 98 per cent of pre-COVID-19 level in August, according to rating agency ICRA. <\/p>\n<p>The electricity demand recovery on an all-India level has largely been led by northern and eastern states with a year-on-year (y-o-y) increase of 6-13 per cent in demand in July 2020, it said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rise in demand was mainly driven by rural consumption though it continues to be lower as compared to the pre-COVID-19 levels,&#8221; it said. <\/p>\n<p>The electricity demand in large industrial states witnessed a 6-15 per cent fall in July 2020 on a y-o-y basis, on the back of slower recovery in industrial activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Led by recovery in rural areas, demand for electricity in the country improved to about 98 per cent of pre-COVID-19 level in August, according to rating agency ICRA. The electricity demand recovery on an all-India level has largely been led by northern and eastern states with a year-on-year (y-o-y) increase of 6-13 per cent in demand in July 2020, it said. &#8220;The rise in demand was mainly driven by rural consumption though it continues to be lower as compared to the pre-COVID-19 levels,&#8221; it said. The electricity demand in large industrial states witnessed a 6-15 per cent fall in July [&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-371430","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\/371430","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=371430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}