{"id":424241,"date":"2021-07-05T09:30:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=424241"},"modified":"2021-07-05T11:14:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T05:44:01","slug":"punjab-power-crisis-deepens-as-another-unit-of-talwandi-sabo-plant-goes-out-of-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/punjab-power-crisis-deepens-as-another-unit-of-talwandi-sabo-plant-goes-out-of-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab power crisis deepens as another unit of Talwandi Sabo plant goes out of operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another unit of the Talwandi Sabo thermal plant went out of operation on Sunday due to a boiler problem, worsening the ongoing power crisis in Punjab. <\/p>\n<p>One of the units of the plant is already under shutdown since March 8. Now, the plant is generating only 610 megawatt (MW) electricity against the installed capacity of 1980 MW, causing a shortage of nearly 1,200 MW.<\/p>\n<p>The non-functioning of the second Talwandi Sabo plant unit (660 MW) is likely to worsen the power situation in Punjab once restrictions imposed on the industry and other consumers are lifted. The power demand without restrictions and 8-hour supply to the agriculture sector has already crossed 15,000 MW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another unit of the Talwandi Sabo thermal plant went out of operation on Sunday due to a boiler problem, worsening the ongoing power crisis in Punjab. One of the units of the plant is already under shutdown since March 8. Now, the plant is generating only 610 megawatt (MW) electricity against the installed capacity of 1980 MW, causing a shortage of nearly 1,200 MW. The non-functioning of the second Talwandi Sabo plant unit (660 MW) is likely to worsen the power situation in Punjab once restrictions imposed on the industry and other consumers are lifted. The power demand without restrictions [&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-424241","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\/424241","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=424241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}