{"id":420997,"date":"2021-06-17T11:10:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T05:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=420997"},"modified":"2021-06-17T13:04:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T07:34:52","slug":"fuel-power-demand-rebound-in-june-as-states-lift-curbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fuel-power-demand-rebound-in-june-as-states-lift-curbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel, power demand rebound in June as states lift curbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s fuel and power demand bounced back in June as states lifted curbs on the back of declining Covid-19 cases across the country, market and government data show. <\/p>\n<p>Petrol consumption posted a monthly growth of 15% and diesel 12% in the first fortnight of June. Yet, the sales volume of petrol was 3.5% lower than a year ago and 21% down from the same period of 2019. <\/p>\n<p>Diesel volumes were 7.5% lower than the corresponding period of last year and more than 21% lower than the same period of 2019. <\/p>\n<p>Consumption of diesel, a proxy for economic activities, had posted a monthly fall of 16% and petrol 17% in May as the second Covid-19 wave prompted lockdowns in states, especially the industrialised ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s fuel and power demand bounced back in June as states lifted curbs on the back of declining Covid-19 cases across the country, market and government data show. Petrol consumption posted a monthly growth of 15% and diesel 12% in the first fortnight of June. Yet, the sales volume of petrol was 3.5% lower than a year ago and 21% down from the same period of 2019. Diesel volumes were 7.5% lower than the corresponding period of last year and more than 21% lower than the same period of 2019. Consumption of diesel, a proxy for economic activities, [&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":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420997","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=420997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}