{"id":501598,"date":"2022-06-29T11:57:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T06:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=501598"},"modified":"2022-06-29T11:57:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T06:27:07","slug":"delhi-reports-highest-ever-power-demand-at-7601-mw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-reports-highest-ever-power-demand-at-7601-mw\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi reports highest ever power demand at 7,601 MW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National capital Delhi reported the highest ever power demand on Tuesday afternoon as the peak power demand soared to 7,601 MW, while the city turned unbearably sultry with high humidity and the temperature over 40 degrees Celsius. It crossed the previous record of highest power demand of 7,409 MW clocked on July 2, 2019, according to power department officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday at 3:21 pm, the city\u2019s peak power demand clocked the season\u2019s highest of 7,601 MW. It was also the highest ever in Delhi in any month. The previous high in Delhi was 7,409 MW recorded on July 2, 2019,\u201d said a senior power department official.<\/p>\n<p>The official added that cooling load is the main reason behind Delhi\u2019s increasing power load. \u201cAccording to an estimate, around 50% of the Capital\u2019s power demand in summers is because of the cooling load through ACs, desert coolers and fans,\u201d said the official cited above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National capital Delhi reported the highest ever power demand on Tuesday afternoon as the peak power demand soared to 7,601 MW, while the city turned unbearably sultry with high humidity and the temperature over 40 degrees Celsius. It crossed the previous record of highest power demand of 7,409 MW clocked on July 2, 2019, according to power department officials. \u201cToday at 3:21 pm, the city\u2019s peak power demand clocked the season\u2019s highest of 7,601 MW. It was also the highest ever in Delhi in any month. The previous high in Delhi was 7,409 MW recorded on July 2, 2019,\u201d said [&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-501598","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\/501598","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=501598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}