{"id":501927,"date":"2022-06-30T10:48:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T05:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=501927"},"modified":"2022-06-30T12:21:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T06:51:36","slug":"crunch-time-for-power-grid-as-japans-heatwave-gets-even-hotter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/crunch-time-for-power-grid-as-japans-heatwave-gets-even-hotter\/","title":{"rendered":"Crunch time for power grid as Japan&#8217;s heatwave gets even hotter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan braced on Wednesday for its hottest day yet of a record-breaking heatwave, as Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called for a ramp-up of nuclear power use amid fears of a shortage of electricity to keep air conditioners whirring. <\/p>\n<p>As some manufacturers announced plans to scale back production to save power, temperatures of around 40 C were predicted in areas surrounding Tokyo on the fifth day of the capital&#8217;s worst June heatwave since records began in 1875.<\/p>\n<p>The Japan Meteorological Agency forecast that temperatures there won&#8217;t drop back to 30 C until July 5. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The electricity demand and supply situation is expected to be the toughest in the last three days (of this week),&#8221; an industry ministry official told reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan braced on Wednesday for its hottest day yet of a record-breaking heatwave, as Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called for a ramp-up of nuclear power use amid fears of a shortage of electricity to keep air conditioners whirring. As some manufacturers announced plans to scale back production to save power, temperatures of around 40 C were predicted in areas surrounding Tokyo on the fifth day of the capital&#8217;s worst June heatwave since records began in 1875. The Japan Meteorological Agency forecast that temperatures there won&#8217;t drop back to 30 C until July 5. &#8220;The electricity demand and supply situation is [&hellip;]<\/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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501927","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=501927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}