{"id":486625,"date":"2022-04-25T11:45:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T06:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=486625"},"modified":"2022-04-25T11:45:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T06:15:47","slug":"long-power-cuts-force-residents-to-turn-to-diesel-generators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/long-power-cuts-force-residents-to-turn-to-diesel-generators\/","title":{"rendered":"Long power cuts force residents to turn to diesel generators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long and unscheduled power cuts across the city are forcing residents to cough up more for electricity as RWAs have to depend on diesel-guzzling generator sets, which cost \u20b922 and \u20b930 per unit. The power cuts have also led to an increase in the maintenance charges as gensets are being used to run facilities in condominiums.<\/p>\n<p>Residents said the power cuts lasts up to 10 hours, thereby increasing the dependence on generators. The purchase of diesel has also gone up in the past one month due to the reliance on generator sets.<\/p>\n<p>Yashesh Yadav, president of Dwarka Expressway welfare association, said the situation has worsened over the last few days. \u201cWith power cuts lasting for eight to 10 hours everyday, we are forced to rely on generator sets, which costs us \u20b922 per unit (of power consumption) and increases with the rising price of diesel,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long and unscheduled power cuts across the city are forcing residents to cough up more for electricity as RWAs have to depend on diesel-guzzling generator sets, which cost \u20b922 and \u20b930 per unit. The power cuts have also led to an increase in the maintenance charges as gensets are being used to run facilities in condominiums. Residents said the power cuts lasts up to 10 hours, thereby increasing the dependence on generators. The purchase of diesel has also gone up in the past one month due to the reliance on generator sets. Yashesh Yadav, president of Dwarka Expressway welfare association, [&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-486625","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\/486625","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=486625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}