{"id":423850,"date":"2021-07-02T11:49:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T06:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=423850"},"modified":"2021-07-02T13:02:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T07:32:44","slug":"outages-in-several-parts-of-punjab-pspcl-blames-huge-demand-overloading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/outages-in-several-parts-of-punjab-pspcl-blames-huge-demand-overloading\/","title":{"rendered":"Outages in several parts of Punjab, PSPCL blames huge demand, overloading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEVERAL PARTS of Punjab faced power cuts for 4-5 hours on Wednesday owing to the huge gap in demand and supply. While farmers continued to protest, demanding 8 hours of continous power for tubewells to irrigate their paddy crop, urban areas faced 1-2 hours while suburbs faced 4-5 of no electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Power demand crossed 14,000 MW \u2014 an all-time high \u2014 on Wednesday while while only 1,290.35 MW were available. According to Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) data, thermal plants of Punjab have the capacity to generate 6,840 MW power, but are generating only 5,640 MW. Moreover, there are outages in Ropar thermal plant (210MW) and Talwandi Sabo thermal plant (990 MW). The latter is a private thermal plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEVERAL PARTS of Punjab faced power cuts for 4-5 hours on Wednesday owing to the huge gap in demand and supply. While farmers continued to protest, demanding 8 hours of continous power for tubewells to irrigate their paddy crop, urban areas faced 1-2 hours while suburbs faced 4-5 of no electricity. Power demand crossed 14,000 MW \u2014 an all-time high \u2014 on Wednesday while while only 1,290.35 MW were available. According to Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) data, thermal plants of Punjab have the capacity to generate 6,840 MW power, but are generating only 5,640 MW. Moreover, there are [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423850","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=423850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}