{"id":373717,"date":"2020-09-15T11:46:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T06:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=373717"},"modified":"2020-09-15T13:04:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T07:34:48","slug":"lucknow-to-record-highest-power-demand-growth-in-up-in-next-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lucknow-to-record-highest-power-demand-growth-in-up-in-next-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucknow to record highest power demand growth in UP in next decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucknow is expected to record the highest growth in electricity consumption among the mega cities in Uttar Pradesh during the next decade, according to a recent report on the 19th Electric Power Survey (EPS) of mega cities. The city\u2019s peak demand was likely to soar to 2579 MW (megawatt) from the current 1450 MW by 2029-30, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Varanasi is likely to be next to Lucknow in the Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of electricity, to be followed by Kanpur and Agra. The four UP towns are among the country\u2019s 45 mega cities covered in the EPS. <\/p>\n<p>During the last five years (2013-14 to 2018-19), Lucknow has logged CAGR of 6.59% &amp; 5.82% in electricity energy requirement and peak demand respectively, according to the report available on Central Electricity Authority\u2019s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucknow is expected to record the highest growth in electricity consumption among the mega cities in Uttar Pradesh during the next decade, according to a recent report on the 19th Electric Power Survey (EPS) of mega cities. The city\u2019s peak demand was likely to soar to 2579 MW (megawatt) from the current 1450 MW by 2029-30, the report said. Varanasi is likely to be next to Lucknow in the Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of electricity, to be followed by Kanpur and Agra. The four UP towns are among the country\u2019s 45 mega cities covered in the EPS. During the [&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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373717","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\/373717","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=373717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}