{"id":396616,"date":"2021-01-21T12:02:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T06:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=396616"},"modified":"2021-01-21T12:15:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T06:45:29","slug":"indias-power-demand-surges-to-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-power-demand-surges-to-record-high\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s power demand surges to record high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the peak electricity demand in the country crossing 1,85,820 Megawatt, the highest-ever recorded, Union power minister RK Singh on Wednesday said that the surging demand for power is a certain indicator of India&#8217;s economy getting back on track.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The demand (and supply) of power in January (upto January 19, 2021) has grown by 8 per cent as compared to the corresponding period last year. This is the highest rate of growth ever. The surging demand for power is a certain indicator that our economy is getting back on track,&#8221; he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The peak demand for power crossed 1,85,820 Megawatt at 9:35 am on today. This is the highest ever, a record,&#8221; he added in another tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the peak electricity demand in the country crossing 1,85,820 Megawatt, the highest-ever recorded, Union power minister RK Singh on Wednesday said that the surging demand for power is a certain indicator of India&#8217;s economy getting back on track. &#8220;The demand (and supply) of power in January (upto January 19, 2021) has grown by 8 per cent as compared to the corresponding period last year. This is the highest rate of growth ever. The surging demand for power is a certain indicator that our economy is getting back on track,&#8221; he tweeted. &#8220;The peak demand for power crossed 1,85,820 Megawatt [&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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396616","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\/396616","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=396616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}