{"id":626869,"date":"2024-01-06T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T06:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=626869"},"modified":"2024-01-06T12:00:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T06:30:02","slug":"delhi-power-demand-hits-all-time-high-amid-cold-spell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-power-demand-hits-all-time-high-amid-cold-spell\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi power demand hits all-time high amid cold spell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The ongoing cold spell in the national capital\u2019s pushed the city\u2019s peak winter power demand to an all-time high of 5,559 MW on January 5, discom officials said. According to real-time data from the State Load Dispatch Centre, Delhi\u2019s peak winter power demand clocked 5,559 MW at 11.05 am.<\/p>\n<p>The officials said the previous highest peak demand witnessed in the city during the winter season was 5,526 MW on January 6, 2023. A BSES spokesperson said that BRPL (BSES Rajdhani Power Limited) and BYPL (BSES Yamuna Power Limited) successfully met the spike in power demand of 2,379 MW and 1,136 MW, respectively, in their areas.<\/p>\n<p>Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (TPDDL), which supplies power in North Delhi, met a peak power demand of 1,735 MW, a company spokesperson said. \u201cTata Power-DDL is adequately prepared for the winter season and has been working towards strengthening its power network and conducting preventive maintenance and condition- based maintenance of all critical electrical installations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The ongoing cold spell in the national capital\u2019s pushed the city\u2019s peak winter power demand to an all-time high of 5,559 MW on January 5, discom officials said. According to real-time data from the State Load Dispatch Centre, Delhi\u2019s peak winter power demand clocked 5,559 MW at 11.05 am. The officials said the previous highest peak demand witnessed in the city during the winter season was 5,526 MW on January 6, 2023. A BSES spokesperson said that BRPL (BSES Rajdhani Power Limited) and BYPL (BSES Yamuna Power Limited) successfully met the spike in power demand of 2,379 MW [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626869","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}