{"id":415370,"date":"2021-05-17T11:24:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T05:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=415370"},"modified":"2021-05-17T11:24:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T05:54:12","slug":"power-demand-dips-during-first-fortnight-of-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-demand-dips-during-first-fortnight-of-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Power demand dips during first fortnight of May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Pan-India power consumption data for the first fortnight of May (May 1-15) indicates that the expansion of Covid-19 lockdowns across the country has begun having an impact on electricity demand.<\/p>\n<p>While the month of April 2021 had recorded lower consumption than March 2021, the fall had been marginal-going from 121.51 billion units (BU) to 119.27 BU. However, the first fortnight of May 2021 has witnessed a far steeper fall of 12 per cent compared to the previous 15-day period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Pan-India power consumption data for the first fortnight of May (May 1-15) indicates that the expansion of Covid-19 lockdowns across the country has begun having an impact on electricity demand. While the month of April 2021 had recorded lower consumption than March 2021, the fall had been marginal-going from 121.51 billion units (BU) to 119.27 BU. However, the first fortnight of May 2021 has witnessed a far steeper fall of 12 per cent compared to the previous 15-day period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415370","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}