{"id":410265,"date":"2021-04-12T09:12:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T03:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=410265"},"modified":"2021-04-12T10:42:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T05:12:41","slug":"pandemic-causes-indias-first-drop-in-annual-power-demand-in-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pandemic-causes-indias-first-drop-in-annual-power-demand-in-15-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic causes India\u2019s first drop in annual power demand in 15 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s annual electricity demand contracted for the first time in at least 15 years, as one of the world\u2019s strictest lockdowns slashed power consumption during the early months of the year ended March.<\/p>\n<p>Demand from state distribution utilities dropped 1.1%, marking the first such decline in records going back to 2006, data from the Central Electricity Authority show. Peak demand during the year rose to 190.2 gigawatts, about half of the country\u2019s installed capacity, from almost 184 gigawatts in the prior year.<\/p>\n<p>Consumption fell as businesses, offices and factories were shuttered after a nationwide lockdown was imposed in March last year. Still, power demand has rebounded as India became one of the few major economies to post growth in the last quarter of 2020,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s annual electricity demand contracted for the first time in at least 15 years, as one of the world\u2019s strictest lockdowns slashed power consumption during the early months of the year ended March. Demand from state distribution utilities dropped 1.1%, marking the first such decline in records going back to 2006, data from the Central Electricity Authority show. Peak demand during the year rose to 190.2 gigawatts, about half of the country\u2019s installed capacity, from almost 184 gigawatts in the prior year. Consumption fell as businesses, offices and factories were shuttered after a nationwide lockdown was imposed in March last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410265","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}