{"id":570984,"date":"2023-04-21T09:31:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T04:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=570984"},"modified":"2023-04-21T10:00:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T04:30:23","slug":"electricity-demand-hits-record-as-heat-boosts-cooling-device-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/electricity-demand-hits-record-as-heat-boosts-cooling-device-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity demand hits record as heat boosts cooling device usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s electricity demand shot to an all-time high this week as a blazing summer forced citizens to crank up their air conditioning and other cooling devices. <\/p>\n<p>Peak demand surged to 216.1 gigawatts on Tuesday, breaching a previous record of 215.9 gigawatts reached a year earlier, said S.R. Narasimhan, chairman of Grid Controller of India Ltd. <\/p>\n<p>Rising electricity demand in the world\u2019s most-populous nation due to a hotter-than-usual summer could potentially strain the country\u2019s transmission network. It would also put pressure on the authorities to avoid blackouts at a time when some states are gearing up for elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s electricity demand shot to an all-time high this week as a blazing summer forced citizens to crank up their air conditioning and other cooling devices. Peak demand surged to 216.1 gigawatts on Tuesday, breaching a previous record of 215.9 gigawatts reached a year earlier, said S.R. Narasimhan, chairman of Grid Controller of India Ltd. Rising electricity demand in the world\u2019s most-populous nation due to a hotter-than-usual summer could potentially strain the country\u2019s transmission network. It would also put pressure on the authorities to avoid blackouts at a time when some states are gearing up for elections.<\/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-570984","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\/570984","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=570984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}