{"id":503136,"date":"2022-07-05T11:48:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T06:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=503136"},"modified":"2022-07-05T11:48:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T06:18:45","slug":"ntpc-cranks-up-output-by-29-as-power-demand-spikes-17-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ntpc-cranks-up-output-by-29-as-power-demand-spikes-17-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"NTPC cranks up output by 29% as power demand spikes 17% in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: State-run NTPC clocked a 29% growth in generation in June as overall demand jumped 17% during the month from a year ago, driven by a long spell of searing heatwave and a sharp rebound in economic activities.<br \/>\nIndia\u2019s largest power producer cranked up generation to 34.8 BU (billion units) in June against 29.9 BU a year ago as overall demand rose to 134 BU from 114.4 BU in June 2021.<br \/>\nAs a group entity, NTPC\u2019s generation stood at 104.4 BU (billion units) in the April-June period, marking an increase of over 21% from 85.8 BU in the year-ago period, the company said on Monday.<br \/>\nThe company\u2019s coal-fired power plants operated at almost 80% capacity during the first quarter against 69% in the year-ago period, made possible by adequate provision of fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: State-run NTPC clocked a 29% growth in generation in June as overall demand jumped 17% during the month from a year ago, driven by a long spell of searing heatwave and a sharp rebound in economic activities. India\u2019s largest power producer cranked up generation to 34.8 BU (billion units) in June against 29.9 BU a year ago as overall demand rose to 134 BU from 114.4 BU in June 2021. As a group entity, NTPC\u2019s generation stood at 104.4 BU (billion units) in the April-June period, marking an increase of over 21% from 85.8 BU in the year-ago [&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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503136","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=503136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}