{"id":423997,"date":"2021-07-03T10:05:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T04:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=423997"},"modified":"2021-07-03T10:54:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T05:24:40","slug":"chandigarhs-aging-power-infra-crumbling-in-the-face-of-rising-summer-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chandigarhs-aging-power-infra-crumbling-in-the-face-of-rising-summer-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandigarh\u2019s aging power infra crumbling in the face of rising summer demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the heatwave wasn\u2019t exasperating enough, the frequent power supply disruptions have been aggravating summer woes of city residents, particularly those living in the southern sectors. <\/p>\n<p>From the demand peaking at 383 megawatts (MW) on Wednesday, when the heatwave first started, it rose to 405MW on Thursday, when the temperature soared to 40.8\u00b0C, and further to 409MW on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>While the city has adequate power supply to cater to the rising summer demand, it is not backed by a robust transmission system, with upgrades pending for years, causing lines to trip as load increases. Absence of adequate support staff to fix the faults only exacerbates residents\u2019 troubles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the heatwave wasn\u2019t exasperating enough, the frequent power supply disruptions have been aggravating summer woes of city residents, particularly those living in the southern sectors. From the demand peaking at 383 megawatts (MW) on Wednesday, when the heatwave first started, it rose to 405MW on Thursday, when the temperature soared to 40.8\u00b0C, and further to 409MW on Friday. While the city has adequate power supply to cater to the rising summer demand, it is not backed by a robust transmission system, with upgrades pending for years, causing lines to trip as load increases. Absence of adequate support staff to [&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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423997","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=423997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}