NEW DELHI: India’s electricity consumption rose at the fastest rate in three months in January but a sharp decline in demand for diesel, a key indicator of economic activities, and tapering petrol sales indicate economic recovery remains shaky.
\nElectricity consumption was in excess of 111 BU (billion units) in January, indicating a 6% growth over 105 BUs in the same month of 2020. Peak power demand also clocked a growth of nearly 11% at nearly 190 GW (gigawatts) January against almost 170 GW in the same month of 2020.
\nPeak power demand, highest energy supplied in a day, had hit an all-time high of 189.64 GW on January 30.
\nOfficials attributed the growth in power consumption to a resurgence in industrial activities. Grid data indicate industrialised southern region consuming more power than other regions.
\nBut monthly January data of state-run fuel retailers, who dominate 90% of the market, shows a 5% drop in sales from a month ago, reversing the sustained uptick since September 2020.
\nDiesel demand had spiked nearly 22% month-on-month in September 2020 after the government began lifting Covid restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: India’s electricity consumption rose at the fastest rate in three months in January but a sharp decline in demand for diesel, a key indicator of economic activities, and tapering petrol sales indicate economic recovery remains shaky. Electricity consumption was in excess of 111 BU (billion units) in January, indicating a 6% growth over 105 BUs in the same month of 2020. Peak power demand also clocked a growth of nearly 11% at nearly 190 GW (gigawatts) January against almost 170 GW in the same month of 2020. Peak power demand, highest energy supplied in a day, had hit […]<\/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-399237","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\/399237","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=399237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}