{"id":423998,"date":"2021-07-03T10:06:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T04:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=423998"},"modified":"2021-07-03T10:55:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T05:25:40","slug":"two-day-industrial-shutdown-pspcl-unable-to-pull-the-plug-on-power-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/two-day-industrial-shutdown-pspcl-unable-to-pull-the-plug-on-power-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-day industrial shutdown: PSPCL unable to pull the plug on power cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the Punjab government imposing a two-day shutdown on industrial consumers, residents continued to swelter within the confines of their homes as unscheduled power outages continued across the district. <\/p>\n<p>The total power demand in Ludhiana central zone is 6,400 MW, of which 2,800MW is utilised by the industry. Last year, the power consumption was 6,000 MW. \u201cThe increased power consumption in summer is causing the transformers to overload, resulting in unscheduled blackouts in certain areas,\u201d a PSPCL official said.\u201cWe have had to replace transformers in some areas, which is a time-consuming process,\u201d the official said, adding that a downpour would reduce the use of air conditioners and reduce the load on transformers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the Punjab government imposing a two-day shutdown on industrial consumers, residents continued to swelter within the confines of their homes as unscheduled power outages continued across the district. The total power demand in Ludhiana central zone is 6,400 MW, of which 2,800MW is utilised by the industry. Last year, the power consumption was 6,000 MW. \u201cThe increased power consumption in summer is causing the transformers to overload, resulting in unscheduled blackouts in certain areas,\u201d a PSPCL official said.\u201cWe have had to replace transformers in some areas, which is a time-consuming process,\u201d the official said, adding that a downpour would [&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-423998","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\/423998","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=423998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}