{"id":597886,"date":"2023-08-16T10:36:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T05:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=597886"},"modified":"2023-08-16T12:32:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T07:02:40","slug":"amidst-talk-of-load-shedding-energy-dept-says-situation-under-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/amidst-talk-of-load-shedding-energy-dept-says-situation-under-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Amidst talk of load-shedding, energy dept says situation under control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU\/TUMAKURU: A weak monsoon coupled with soaring demand for electricity has put the state government and its energy department in a fix, especially with the rollout of the Gruha Jyothi free power scheme.<\/p>\n<p>While home minister G Parameshwara on Tuesday revealed in Tumakuru that the energy department has no choice but to resort to load-shedding in parts of the state, officials insisted there is no reason to panic as Karnataka\u2019s demand for power is being met by alternative sources \u2014 at least for now.<\/p>\n<p>Sources say Karnataka\u2019s consumption has shot up by a staggering 72% compared to the same time last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU\/TUMAKURU: A weak monsoon coupled with soaring demand for electricity has put the state government and its energy department in a fix, especially with the rollout of the Gruha Jyothi free power scheme. While home minister G Parameshwara on Tuesday revealed in Tumakuru that the energy department has no choice but to resort to load-shedding in parts of the state, officials insisted there is no reason to panic as Karnataka\u2019s demand for power is being met by alternative sources \u2014 at least for now. Sources say Karnataka\u2019s consumption has shot up by a staggering 72% compared to the same time [&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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597886","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\/597886","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=597886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}