{"id":584735,"date":"2023-06-15T12:44:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T07:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=584735"},"modified":"2023-06-15T14:11:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T08:41:59","slug":"in-u-p-power-pilferage-ac-usage-rocketing-power-demand-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/in-u-p-power-pilferage-ac-usage-rocketing-power-demand-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"In U.P, power pilferage &amp; AC usage rocketing power demand at night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUCKNOW As the sun goes down, the demand for power goes up in the state. Under the pressure of this meteoric increase, the state\u2019s power infrastructure is crumbling, and as a consequence, residents are rendered sleepless nights due to power cuts.<\/p>\n<p>The nocturnal power load is attributed to the usage of air-conditioners in urban areas and power theft in several low-income localities. According to Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL), many consumers use \u2018katiya\u2019 connections or by-pass their meters to run ACs and other appliances in the night, causing the demand to surge dramatically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have found that the maximum power demand in the state is being recorded after 10.30 pm or so. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUCKNOW As the sun goes down, the demand for power goes up in the state. Under the pressure of this meteoric increase, the state\u2019s power infrastructure is crumbling, and as a consequence, residents are rendered sleepless nights due to power cuts. The nocturnal power load is attributed to the usage of air-conditioners in urban areas and power theft in several low-income localities. According to Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL), many consumers use \u2018katiya\u2019 connections or by-pass their meters to run ACs and other appliances in the night, causing the demand to surge dramatically. \u201cWe have found that the maximum [&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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584735","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=584735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}