{"id":376672,"date":"2020-10-05T08:40:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T03:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=376672"},"modified":"2020-10-05T09:09:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T03:39:20","slug":"delhis-peak-power-demand-reaching-pre-covid-levels-as-economy-opens-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhis-peak-power-demand-reaching-pre-covid-levels-as-economy-opens-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi&#8217;s peak power demand reaching pre-Covid levels as economy opens up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The peak power demand of Delhi is fast catching up with pre-COVID levels as an increasing number of economic activities are being allowed under the Centre&#8217;s &#8216;Unlock&#8217; process, discom officials said. <\/p>\n<p>In September this year, the peak power demand was just 5.9 per cent lower as compared to the corresponding month last year. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In April, during the height of COVID-19-induced lockdown, there was a gap of around 40 per cent in comparison to the peak power demand of 2019. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The gap reduced to just about 5.9 in September. The peak power demand in September 2019 was 6,626 MW, while it was 6,231 MW this year,&#8221; discom officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The peak power demand of Delhi is fast catching up with pre-COVID levels as an increasing number of economic activities are being allowed under the Centre&#8217;s &#8216;Unlock&#8217; process, discom officials said. In September this year, the peak power demand was just 5.9 per cent lower as compared to the corresponding month last year. &#8220;In April, during the height of COVID-19-induced lockdown, there was a gap of around 40 per cent in comparison to the peak power demand of 2019. &#8220;The gap reduced to just about 5.9 in September. The peak power demand in September 2019 was 6,626 MW, while it [&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-376672","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\/376672","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=376672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}