{"id":477373,"date":"2022-03-22T10:53:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T05:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=477373"},"modified":"2022-03-22T10:53:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T05:23:46","slug":"japan-fighting-to-avoid-mass-power-cuts-after-earthquake-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/japan-fighting-to-avoid-mass-power-cuts-after-earthquake-last-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan fighting to avoid mass power cuts after earthquake last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan is scrambling to keep the lights on in Tokyo on Tuesday, as freezing temperatures and power plant outages after last week\u2019s earthquake put the nation\u2019s capital at risk of blackouts.<\/p>\n<p>The situation across the Tokyo area is \u201cextremely tight,\u201d and there could be partial power outages if the supply shortfall continues, according to an official at Tokyo Electric Power Co., who added that there currently aren\u2019t plans for rolling blackouts. The metropolis\u2019 power supply is expected to fall short of demand in the evening, the country\u2019s trade ministry warned. <\/p>\n<p>The ministry called for further power conservation efforts, saying that it might need to make stronger requests for users depending on the situation during the day. Households and businesses need to reduce power consumption as much as possibe, Trade Minister Koichi Hagiuda said earlier, after the government issued its first-ever electricity supply alert for the Tokyo area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan is scrambling to keep the lights on in Tokyo on Tuesday, as freezing temperatures and power plant outages after last week\u2019s earthquake put the nation\u2019s capital at risk of blackouts. The situation across the Tokyo area is \u201cextremely tight,\u201d and there could be partial power outages if the supply shortfall continues, according to an official at Tokyo Electric Power Co., who added that there currently aren\u2019t plans for rolling blackouts. The metropolis\u2019 power supply is expected to fall short of demand in the evening, the country\u2019s trade ministry warned. The ministry called for further power conservation efforts, saying that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"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-477373","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\/477373","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}