{"id":641169,"date":"2024-04-09T10:10:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T04:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=641169"},"modified":"2024-04-10T11:04:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T05:34:44","slug":"delhi-electricity-demand-to-cross-8gw-this-summer-discoms-brace-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-electricity-demand-to-cross-8gw-this-summer-discoms-brace-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi electricity demand to cross 8GW this summer, discoms brace up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a warning of a severe heatwave this summer, which would also push up electricity demand, power distribution companies (discoms) in the national capital are preparing for record demand in the coming months. <\/p>\n<p>The three privately-owned discoms in public statements said they are expecting demand to cross 8 gigawatts (GW) &#8211; a new record for Delhi. Reliance Infra BSES Yamuna Ltd, BSES Rajdhani Ltd, and Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd are the privately-run discoms in the capital. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter clocking a record power demand of 7,695 MW in 2022, Delhi\u2019s peak power demand during the summers of 2024 may cross 8 GW for the first time, reaching up to 8.2 GW. Last year, Delhi\u2019s peak power demand had clocked 7.4 GW,\u201d the discoms said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a warning of a severe heatwave this summer, which would also push up electricity demand, power distribution companies (discoms) in the national capital are preparing for record demand in the coming months. The three privately-owned discoms in public statements said they are expecting demand to cross 8 gigawatts (GW) &#8211; a new record for Delhi. Reliance Infra BSES Yamuna Ltd, BSES Rajdhani Ltd, and Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd are the privately-run discoms in the capital. \u201cAfter clocking a record power demand of 7,695 MW in 2022, Delhi\u2019s peak power demand during the summers of 2024 may cross 8 [&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-641169","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\/641169","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=641169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}