{"id":418825,"date":"2021-06-05T09:37:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T04:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=418825"},"modified":"2021-06-05T10:41:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T05:11:38","slug":"indias-low-electricity-demand-may-continue-till-july-sp-global-platts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-low-electricity-demand-may-continue-till-july-sp-global-platts\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s low electricity demand may continue till July: S&amp;P Global Platts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: With the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic keeping a large part of India\u2019s population indoors, the country\u2019s electricity demand dipped in May, according to S&amp;P Global Platts.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s low power demand scenario may continue till July. This assumes importance given that energy consumption, especially electricity and refinery products, usually linked to overall demand in the economy. <\/p>\n<p>Also, there were not many takers for coal-fuelled electricity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoal averaged 140 GW in April but declined sharply to only 114 GW for May. The month-on-month decline of 26 GW is the largest on record, even larger than what we observed during the initial stages of the pandemic in 2020. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: With the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic keeping a large part of India\u2019s population indoors, the country\u2019s electricity demand dipped in May, according to S&amp;P Global Platts. India\u2019s low power demand scenario may continue till July. This assumes importance given that energy consumption, especially electricity and refinery products, usually linked to overall demand in the economy. Also, there were not many takers for coal-fuelled electricity. \u201cCoal averaged 140 GW in April but declined sharply to only 114 GW for May. The month-on-month decline of 26 GW is the largest on record, even larger than what we observed [&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":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418825","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=418825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}