NEW DELHI: The Covid-19-induced lockdown had brought economic activities to a near halt, but overall electricity demand in Delhi was not affected significantly beyond the first lockdown period, says an analysis of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on power consumption in the capital during lockdown and unlock phases.
\nThe analysis, covering the city\u2019s electricity demand till the second unlock period (July 31), says the consumption recovered quickly to almost near-normal levels and it was only 10-12 % lower during the unlock period than the corresponding period in 2019.
\nIt found that the lowest demand (1,748 MW) during lockdown phases was recorded on March 29 \u2013 just before the onset of high summer. The city\u2019s average daily mean electricity demand rose from 1,946 MW during lockdown 1.0 to nearly 3,812 MW during lockdown 4.0 by the end of May — nearly doubled within the lockdown phases.
\nAttributing the bullish consumption trend to \u201cheat stress and cooling demand in the residential sector\u201d, the CSE flagged in its report how higher heat stresses this summer combined with thermal discomfort in \u201cpoorly designed\u201d buildings increased dependence on air conditioning and upset the energy budget despite lower economic activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: The Covid-19-induced lockdown had brought economic activities to a near halt, but overall electricity demand in Delhi was not affected significantly beyond the first lockdown period, says an analysis of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on power consumption in the capital during lockdown and unlock phases. The analysis, covering the city\u2019s electricity demand till the second unlock period (July 31), says the consumption recovered quickly to almost near-normal levels and it was only 10-12 % lower during the unlock period than the corresponding period in 2019. It found that the lowest demand (1,748 MW) during lockdown […]<\/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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372245","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=372245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}