{"id":477410,"date":"2022-03-22T11:14:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T05:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=477410"},"modified":"2022-03-22T11:14:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T05:44:56","slug":"power-demand-may-top-8k-mw-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-demand-may-top-8k-mw-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Power demand may top 8k MW this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi\u2019s peak power demand this summer is likely to cross the 8,000 megawatt (MW)-mark, electricity distribution companies (discoms) said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDelhi\u2019s peak power demand breached the 7,000-MW for the first time \u2013 peaking at 7016 MW &#8212; in 2018. This year, the expected peak power demand is likely to touch 8,200 MW, which will be an increase of around 285% over the peak power demand of 2,879 MW two decades ago in 2002. If the power demand this summer actually peaks as per our projections, then it will be the first time that Delhi\u2019s demand will hit the 8,000 MW-mark,\u201d said a senior power department official who asked not to be named.<\/p>\n<p>Last year (2021), Delhi\u2019s clocked a peak power demand of 7,323 MW. The highest peak demand ever met in Delhi was in 2019 when it 7,409 MW on July 2. During the summers of 2020, the city logged a peak demand of 6,314 MW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi\u2019s peak power demand this summer is likely to cross the 8,000 megawatt (MW)-mark, electricity distribution companies (discoms) said on Monday. \u201cDelhi\u2019s peak power demand breached the 7,000-MW for the first time \u2013 peaking at 7016 MW &#8212; in 2018. This year, the expected peak power demand is likely to touch 8,200 MW, which will be an increase of around 285% over the peak power demand of 2,879 MW two decades ago in 2002. If the power demand this summer actually peaks as per our projections, then it will be the first time that Delhi\u2019s demand will hit the 8,000 [&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-477410","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\/477410","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=477410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}