{"id":583883,"date":"2023-06-12T11:42:27","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T06:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=583883"},"modified":"2023-06-12T13:17:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T07:47:58","slug":"government-data-peak-power-demand-touches-new-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/government-data-peak-power-demand-touches-new-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Government data: Peak power demand touches new high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s peak power demand that could be met touched a fresh high of 223.23 giga watt (GW) on June 9, indicating a decline in the impact of unseasonal rains on electricity consumption, according to government data.The ministry of power had earlier projected a peak demand of 229 GW for this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The unseasonal rains had a cooling effect during the summer months, leading to reduced use of power-hungry appliances like air conditioners, experts explained. In anticipation of a potential surge in demand, the power ministry had instructed all imported coal-based power plants to operate at full capacity from March 16 to June 15, 2023.To prevent any fuel shortage, domestic coal-based thermal power plants were also advised to import coal for blending, as per the ministry\u2019s directives. Government data shows that the peak power demand met was 215.97 GW in April and 221.34 GW in May, with a minor shortfall of only 170 MW and 23 MW, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s peak power demand that could be met touched a fresh high of 223.23 giga watt (GW) on June 9, indicating a decline in the impact of unseasonal rains on electricity consumption, according to government data.The ministry of power had earlier projected a peak demand of 229 GW for this summer. The unseasonal rains had a cooling effect during the summer months, leading to reduced use of power-hungry appliances like air conditioners, experts explained. In anticipation of a potential surge in demand, the power ministry had instructed all imported coal-based power plants to operate at full capacity from March 16 [&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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583883","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=583883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}