{"id":396513,"date":"2021-01-21T10:53:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T05:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=396513"},"modified":"2021-01-21T10:53:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T05:23:34","slug":"indias-power-demand-surges-to-record-high-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-power-demand-surges-to-record-high-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s power demand surges to record high Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In what is being viewed as an indication of much-awaited economic recovery, India\u2019 electricity demand surged to an all-time high of 185.82 gigawatts (GW) early Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The previous record of 182.88 GW was registered on 30 December. This assumes significance as the Indian economy has been battered by pandemic-induced disruptions. Energy consumption, especially that of electricity and refinery products, is typically linked to overall demand in the economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPower demand continues to surge. Yet another record &#8211; all India demand : 185.82 GW ie 185, 822 MW at 09:35hrs today ie 20\/01\/21. It has crossed previous all India demand of 182.89 GW ie 182, 888 MW on 30th December, 20,&#8221; Sanjiv Nandan Sahai, secretary, power ministry, said in a tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In what is being viewed as an indication of much-awaited economic recovery, India\u2019 electricity demand surged to an all-time high of 185.82 gigawatts (GW) early Wednesday. The previous record of 182.88 GW was registered on 30 December. This assumes significance as the Indian economy has been battered by pandemic-induced disruptions. Energy consumption, especially that of electricity and refinery products, is typically linked to overall demand in the economy. \u201cPower demand continues to surge. Yet another record &#8211; all India demand : 185.82 GW ie 185, 822 MW at 09:35hrs today ie 20\/01\/21. It has crossed previous all India [&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-396513","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\/396513","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=396513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}