{"id":600075,"date":"2023-08-28T10:47:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T05:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=600075"},"modified":"2023-08-28T12:50:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T07:20:30","slug":"power-shortage-looms-as-demand-skyrockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-shortage-looms-as-demand-skyrockets\/","title":{"rendered":"Power shortage looms as demand skyrockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: With demand for power spiralling \u2014 largely due to heavy industrial activity that has picked up steam following the pandemic lull \u2014 Karnataka fears a possible energy deficit over the next month. <\/p>\n<p>Senior energy department officials said the state is already recording a deficit of 2,200 million units per day, forcing the government to activate its thermal power plants well ahead of schedule. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a normal year, rains would have helped generate enough hydroelectricity to meet demand and that would have meant a downtime for thermal power plants until August 31,\u201d said an official. \u201cBut a patchy monsoon has meant reservoirs have too little water for hydropower. We have been forced to activate thermal power plants early.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: With demand for power spiralling \u2014 largely due to heavy industrial activity that has picked up steam following the pandemic lull \u2014 Karnataka fears a possible energy deficit over the next month. Senior energy department officials said the state is already recording a deficit of 2,200 million units per day, forcing the government to activate its thermal power plants well ahead of schedule. \u201cIn a normal year, rains would have helped generate enough hydroelectricity to meet demand and that would have meant a downtime for thermal power plants until August 31,\u201d said an official. \u201cBut a patchy monsoon has [&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-600075","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\/600075","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=600075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}