{"id":487912,"date":"2022-04-29T12:47:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T07:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=487912"},"modified":"2022-04-29T12:47:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T07:17:28","slug":"pspcl-bleeds-as-power-demand-soars-by-50-in-scorching-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pspcl-bleeds-as-power-demand-soars-by-50-in-scorching-april\/","title":{"rendered":"PSPCL bleeds as power demand soars by 50% in scorching April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sultry summer has not only put an extra burden of \u20b9300 crore on Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) but also dented the image of the government as long power cuts have become a norm in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Due to power shortage, it\u2019s for the first time that the PSPCL has purchased \u20b9300 crore of extra power from the grid in the month of April.<\/p>\n<p>In the absence of timely support from the state government, the PSPCL had no other option but to go for a short-term loan of \u20b9500 crore for the purchase of power in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sultry summer has not only put an extra burden of \u20b9300 crore on Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) but also dented the image of the government as long power cuts have become a norm in the state. Due to power shortage, it\u2019s for the first time that the PSPCL has purchased \u20b9300 crore of extra power from the grid in the month of April. In the absence of timely support from the state government, the PSPCL had no other option but to go for a short-term loan of \u20b9500 crore for the purchase of power in April.<\/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-487912","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\/487912","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=487912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}