{"id":397207,"date":"2021-01-25T11:56:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T06:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=397207"},"modified":"2021-01-25T11:56:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T06:26:11","slug":"power-demand-hits-record-high-of-187-gw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-demand-hits-record-high-of-187-gw\/","title":{"rendered":"Power demand hits record high of 187 GW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s daily power demand touched an all-time high at 187.3 GW (gigawatts) on Friday, beating the previous record reached on Wednesday, underlining the growing strength of the economy, power minister R K Singh said.<br \/>\nOn Wednesday, demand had breached the previous record of 182.89 GW, clocked on December 30, 2020, for the first time at 9.35 a.m. This was 9% higher than 170.97 GW in January 2020, till then the highest-ever supply in a day. Government officials said the surge in demand indicated a rebound in industrial and commercial activities in January after a 0.3% dip in factory output in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s daily power demand touched an all-time high at 187.3 GW (gigawatts) on Friday, beating the previous record reached on Wednesday, underlining the growing strength of the economy, power minister R K Singh said. On Wednesday, demand had breached the previous record of 182.89 GW, clocked on December 30, 2020, for the first time at 9.35 a.m. This was 9% higher than 170.97 GW in January 2020, till then the highest-ever supply in a day. Government officials said the surge in demand indicated a rebound in industrial and commercial activities in January after a 0.3% dip in factory [&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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397207","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=397207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}