{"id":601462,"date":"2023-09-04T10:27:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T04:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=601462"},"modified":"2023-09-04T10:27:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T04:57:21","slug":"stitch-in-time-avoids-power-shortage-as-peak-demand-hits-240gw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/stitch-in-time-avoids-power-shortage-as-peak-demand-hits-240gw\/","title":{"rendered":"Stitch in time avoids power shortage as peak demand hits 240GW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Power demand scaled a fresh peak at nearly 240GW (gigawatts) on September 1 at 12.22pm due to a combination of expanding economic activities and humid weather across large parts of the country created in the wake of a receding monsoon.<\/p>\n<p>The new peak marked an increase of 2.5% from the previous high of 234 GW recorded on August 17, surpassing the government\u2019s estimate of 229GW maximum demand for this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Peak demand denotes the maximum electricity consumption over a specified time period, usually in 15-minute slabs. Energy met is the units of power supplied in 24 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Power demand scaled a fresh peak at nearly 240GW (gigawatts) on September 1 at 12.22pm due to a combination of expanding economic activities and humid weather across large parts of the country created in the wake of a receding monsoon. The new peak marked an increase of 2.5% from the previous high of 234 GW recorded on August 17, surpassing the government\u2019s estimate of 229GW maximum demand for this summer. Peak demand denotes the maximum electricity consumption over a specified time period, usually in 15-minute slabs. Energy met is the units of power supplied in 24 hours.<\/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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601462","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\/601462","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=601462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}