{"id":602371,"date":"2023-09-08T09:20:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T03:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=602371"},"modified":"2023-09-08T09:45:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T04:15:51","slug":"powermin-issues-steps-for-states-to-meet-rising-electricity-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/powermin-issues-steps-for-states-to-meet-rising-electricity-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerMin issues steps for States to meet rising electricity demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Ministry of Power has directed all states, their power distribution companies (discoms) and central and state generating companies (gencos) to meet the rising electricity demand that has crossed a record 241 gigawatts (Gw) last week.<\/p>\n<p>In a note circulated to all stakeholders including state governments, the ministry has asked them to take necessary steps to ensure supply to electricity consumers.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said that states were not able to meet demand when it reached record levels during non-solar hours (hours when solar power is not generated)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Ministry of Power has directed all states, their power distribution companies (discoms) and central and state generating companies (gencos) to meet the rising electricity demand that has crossed a record 241 gigawatts (Gw) last week. In a note circulated to all stakeholders including state governments, the ministry has asked them to take necessary steps to ensure supply to electricity consumers. The ministry said that states were not able to meet demand when it reached record levels during non-solar hours (hours when solar power is not generated)<\/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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602371","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=602371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}