{"id":423527,"date":"2021-07-01T11:45:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T06:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=423527"},"modified":"2021-07-01T12:34:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T07:04:44","slug":"at-6921-mw-delhi-sees-highest-peak-power-demand-so-far-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/at-6921-mw-delhi-sees-highest-peak-power-demand-so-far-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"At 6,921 MW, Delhi sees highest peak power demand so far this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With rains eluding Delhi and the maximum temperature hovering near 40 degrees Celsius, the national capital&#8217;s peak power demand soared to 6,921 MW on Wednesday, the highest so far this summer season. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, the India Meteorological Department&#8217;s regional forecasting centre had predicted a heatwave during the day with the maximum temperature likely to settle around 41 degrees Celsius. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Delhi State Load Dispatch Centre&#8217;s real-time data, the peak power demand reached 6,921 MW at 3:10 PM on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>This season&#8217;s previous peak of 6,592 MW was recorded on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>According to discom officials, this year, Delhi&#8217;s peak power demand has already crossed last year&#8217;s peak of 6,314 MW on five occasions &#8212; June 30, 29, 28, 24 and 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With rains eluding Delhi and the maximum temperature hovering near 40 degrees Celsius, the national capital&#8217;s peak power demand soared to 6,921 MW on Wednesday, the highest so far this summer season. Earlier in the day, the India Meteorological Department&#8217;s regional forecasting centre had predicted a heatwave during the day with the maximum temperature likely to settle around 41 degrees Celsius. According to the Delhi State Load Dispatch Centre&#8217;s real-time data, the peak power demand reached 6,921 MW at 3:10 PM on Wednesday. This season&#8217;s previous peak of 6,592 MW was recorded on Tuesday. According to discom officials, this year, [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423527","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=423527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}