{"id":637607,"date":"2024-03-05T09:54:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T04:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=637607"},"modified":"2024-03-05T11:05:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T05:35:14","slug":"peak-power-demand-estimated-to-rise-7-to-260-gw-this-summer-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/peak-power-demand-estimated-to-rise-7-to-260-gw-this-summer-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Peak power demand estimated to rise 7% to 260 GW this summer: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peak power demand in the country is estimated to rise by seven per cent year-on-year to 260 GW this summer, according to a senior official.<br \/>\nThe peak power demand during the summer of 2023 touched 243 GW against a projection of 229 GW. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We expect the peak power demand this year (in summers) at 260GW,&#8221; Central Electricity Authority Chairperson Ghanshyam Prasad told reporters on the sidelines of the Fourth Edition of Lineman Diwas in the capital. <\/p>\n<p>The power ministry had estimated the country&#8217;s electricity demand to touch 229 GW during summers in 2023, but it did not reach the projected level in April-July due to unseasonal rainfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peak power demand in the country is estimated to rise by seven per cent year-on-year to 260 GW this summer, according to a senior official. The peak power demand during the summer of 2023 touched 243 GW against a projection of 229 GW. &#8220;We expect the peak power demand this year (in summers) at 260GW,&#8221; Central Electricity Authority Chairperson Ghanshyam Prasad told reporters on the sidelines of the Fourth Edition of Lineman Diwas in the capital. The power ministry had estimated the country&#8217;s electricity demand to touch 229 GW during summers in 2023, but it did not reach the projected [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637607","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\/637607","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=637607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}