{"id":490447,"date":"2022-05-10T09:12:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T03:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=490447"},"modified":"2022-05-10T09:18:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T03:48:01","slug":"power-stocks-build-momentum-amid-indias-energy-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-stocks-build-momentum-amid-indias-energy-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Power stocks build momentum amid India&#8217;s energy crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s power consumption spiked to an all-time high of 132.98 billion units in April amid the rise in mercury level in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to India\u2019s power ministry, the country\u2019s electricity demand is expected to rise to 220 gigawatts in the next two months as meteorological department forecasts above normal maximum temperatures in west-central, north-west, north and north-eastern regions.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not surprising then, that power-related stocks have been the favourable destinations with investors this year.<\/p>\n<p>The stock prices of power sector companies, including power generation and power distribution, have done materially better than benchmark indices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s power consumption spiked to an all-time high of 132.98 billion units in April amid the rise in mercury level in the country. According to India\u2019s power ministry, the country\u2019s electricity demand is expected to rise to 220 gigawatts in the next two months as meteorological department forecasts above normal maximum temperatures in west-central, north-west, north and north-eastern regions. It\u2019s not surprising then, that power-related stocks have been the favourable destinations with investors this year. The stock prices of power sector companies, including power generation and power distribution, have done materially better than benchmark indices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490447","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}