{"id":396248,"date":"2021-01-20T10:15:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T04:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=396248"},"modified":"2021-01-20T10:15:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T04:45:18","slug":"ntpc-records-4-growth-in-power-generation-in-apr-dec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ntpc-records-4-growth-in-power-generation-in-apr-dec\/","title":{"rendered":"NTPC records 4% growth in power generation in Apr-Dec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-run power major NTPC Ltd achieved gross cumulative generation of 222.4 billion units between April and December 2020, up 3.8% year-on-year, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. India\u2019s largest power generation utility also registered its highest-ever daily gross electricity generation of 1,009 million units on 18 January, it added.<\/p>\n<p>The rise in energy generation assumes significance, as it is a key indicator to the country\u2019s economic recovery following the massive disruptions during the covid-19 crisis. Energy consumption, especially of electricity and refinery products, is usually linked to overall demand in the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Power and new and renewable energy minister Raj Kumar Singh had earlier saidthat India\u2019s electricity demand had risen post-covid, with December\u2019s daily consumption at 5-10 gigawatts (GW) higher compared to the year-ago period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-run power major NTPC Ltd achieved gross cumulative generation of 222.4 billion units between April and December 2020, up 3.8% year-on-year, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. India\u2019s largest power generation utility also registered its highest-ever daily gross electricity generation of 1,009 million units on 18 January, it added. The rise in energy generation assumes significance, as it is a key indicator to the country\u2019s economic recovery following the massive disruptions during the covid-19 crisis. Energy consumption, especially of electricity and refinery products, is usually linked to overall demand in the economy. Power and new and renewable energy [&hellip;]<\/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":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396248","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=396248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}