{"id":577391,"date":"2023-05-18T09:42:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T04:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=577391"},"modified":"2023-05-18T10:12:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T04:42:22","slug":"peak-power-demand-hits-historic-high-of-220-gw-may-cross-that-level-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/peak-power-demand-hits-historic-high-of-220-gw-may-cross-that-level-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Peak power demand hits historic high of 220 Gw, may cross that level soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At around 3 pm on Wednesday, India\u2019s daily peak power demand touched 220 gigawatts (Gw)\u2013the highest daily peak ever in the history of the country. <\/p>\n<p>The ministry of power in its estimates had projected country\u2019s power demand to cross touch 220 Gw during the months of April-June. With a cooler April due to unseasonal rains, the peak shifted to May. As temperatures soar across the country, it is expected, the peak demand is likely to cross the 220 Gw mark as well, unless the monsoon sets in early or pre-monsoon showers give a respite. <\/p>\n<p>The Centre had made projections for the coal demand scenario and grid preparedness keeping in mind the 220 Gw peak this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At around 3 pm on Wednesday, India\u2019s daily peak power demand touched 220 gigawatts (Gw)\u2013the highest daily peak ever in the history of the country. The ministry of power in its estimates had projected country\u2019s power demand to cross touch 220 Gw during the months of April-June. With a cooler April due to unseasonal rains, the peak shifted to May. As temperatures soar across the country, it is expected, the peak demand is likely to cross the 220 Gw mark as well, unless the monsoon sets in early or pre-monsoon showers give a respite. The Centre had made projections for [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577391","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\/577391","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=577391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}