{"id":487553,"date":"2022-04-28T11:58:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T06:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=487553"},"modified":"2022-04-28T11:58:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T06:28:02","slug":"power-conundrum-is-the-crisis-for-real-consumers-beg-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-conundrum-is-the-crisis-for-real-consumers-beg-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Power conundrum: Is the crisis for real, consumers beg to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR: Is the power crisis in the State for real? A cursory glance at the grid status reports of the State Load Despatch Centre (SLD), Odisha gives a picture contrary to what the mandarins of the State power sector management have been painting since the problem erupted on Monday following outage of an unit of NTPC\u2019s Darlipali super thermal power station.<\/p>\n<p>The Tata Power managed four power distribution companies (discoms) in their day-ahead schedule have been indenting less power but drawing more. If there is actual shortage, how Gridco, the bulk supplier of power to the State, is meeting the surplus demand of the discoms poses a big question.\u201cHad the case been reverse &#8211; the discoms drawing less power than what they scheduled for a day &#8211; one can understand that there is a shortage,\u201d said  power analyst Anand Mohapatra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR: Is the power crisis in the State for real? A cursory glance at the grid status reports of the State Load Despatch Centre (SLD), Odisha gives a picture contrary to what the mandarins of the State power sector management have been painting since the problem erupted on Monday following outage of an unit of NTPC\u2019s Darlipali super thermal power station. The Tata Power managed four power distribution companies (discoms) in their day-ahead schedule have been indenting less power but drawing more. If there is actual shortage, how Gridco, the bulk supplier of power to the State, is meeting the [&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-487553","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\/487553","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=487553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}