{"id":424984,"date":"2021-07-08T11:45:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T06:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=424984"},"modified":"2021-07-08T11:45:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T06:15:56","slug":"recovery-sign-indias-peak-power-demand-sets-new-record-at-200-gw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/recovery-sign-indias-peak-power-demand-sets-new-record-at-200-gw\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovery sign? India\u2019s peak power demand sets new record at 200 GW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI:  In an indication that power demand growth is well and truly back on the upward trajectory after having been dented by lockdowns to contain successive waves of Covid, India registered a new record with peak power demand on Wednesday breaching the double century-mark for the first time. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll India power-demand crossed 200 GW at 1201 hrs today,\u201d tweeted Union Minister for Power R K Singh. For context, last month, the peak power demand met stood at 191.51 GW, registered on June 30. This number has been steadily recovering month-on-month after having been slowed a little by the peak of the second wave in April and May this year. Peak power demand met came in at 186.3 GW in March, 182.55 GW in April, and 168.8 GW in May. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: In an indication that power demand growth is well and truly back on the upward trajectory after having been dented by lockdowns to contain successive waves of Covid, India registered a new record with peak power demand on Wednesday breaching the double century-mark for the first time. \u201cAll India power-demand crossed 200 GW at 1201 hrs today,\u201d tweeted Union Minister for Power R K Singh. For context, last month, the peak power demand met stood at 191.51 GW, registered on June 30. This number has been steadily recovering month-on-month after having been slowed a little by the peak of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424984","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}