{"id":633865,"date":"2024-02-12T11:25:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T05:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=633865"},"modified":"2024-02-12T11:25:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T05:55:35","slug":"et-now-gbs-2024-power-sector-racing-ahead-to-meet-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/et-now-gbs-2024-power-sector-racing-ahead-to-meet-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"ET Now GBS 2024: Power sector racing ahead to meet demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The power sector is gearing up and readying capacities to meet India&#8217;s growing electricity demand propelled by the surge in economic growth, power and new and renewable energy minister RK Singh said at the ET Now Global Business Summit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our peak demand was 136,000 MW in 2014 and today it is 234,000 MW, and it is growing at 9%,&#8221; he said. About 190,000 MW capacity has been added in this government&#8217;s period, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The power sector is gearing up and readying capacities to meet India&#8217;s growing electricity demand propelled by the surge in economic growth, power and new and renewable energy minister RK Singh said at the ET Now Global Business Summit. &#8220;Our peak demand was 136,000 MW in 2014 and today it is 234,000 MW, and it is growing at 9%,&#8221; he said. About 190,000 MW capacity has been added in this government&#8217;s period, he added.<\/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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633865","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=633865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}