{"id":613118,"date":"2023-10-28T11:08:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T05:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=613118"},"modified":"2023-10-28T12:33:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T07:03:03","slug":"rise-in-capitals-heat-index-driving-power-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rise-in-capitals-heat-index-driving-power-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise in Capital\u2019s heat index driving power demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change has led to shift in the rainfall pattern resulting in a rise in Delhi&#8217;s relative humidity, increasing discomfort even though there has been no significant change in the city&#8217;s ambient temperatures since 2011, according to a new analysis.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis by the independent think tank Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) underscores that the rise in heat index, due to the increase in Delhi&#8217;s relative humidity, is driving the power demand in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The heat index, also known as the &#8216;apparent temperature&#8217; or &#8216;feels-like temperature&#8217;, is a measure of how hot it feels to the human body when relative humidity is factored in with the actual air temperature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change has led to shift in the rainfall pattern resulting in a rise in Delhi&#8217;s relative humidity, increasing discomfort even though there has been no significant change in the city&#8217;s ambient temperatures since 2011, according to a new analysis. The analysis by the independent think tank Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) underscores that the rise in heat index, due to the increase in Delhi&#8217;s relative humidity, is driving the power demand in the city. The heat index, also known as the &#8216;apparent temperature&#8217; or &#8216;feels-like temperature&#8217;, is a measure of how hot it feels to the human body [&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":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613118","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=613118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}