{"id":642392,"date":"2024-04-24T12:14:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T06:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=642392"},"modified":"2024-04-24T12:14:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T06:44:36","slug":"mumbai-power-companies-scurry-to-meet-rising-demand-in-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mumbai-power-companies-scurry-to-meet-rising-demand-in-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai power companies scurry to meet rising demand in city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: With peak summer on and heat waves the norm, power distribution companies are rushing to meet rising demand either by signing short-term agreements or buying expensive power from the open market.<\/p>\n<p>Tata Power, which had anticipated a shortfall of 50-150 megawatt (MW) between April and June, will now procure additional electricity through a short-term power purchase agreement. The company received a go-ahead from the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC), a quasi-judicial body, on April 20.<\/p>\n<p>Tata Power, which has 750,000 consumers, has stated it will need at least 25 MW round the clock, with the requirement touching 100-150MW during peak hours (4-10 pm). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: With peak summer on and heat waves the norm, power distribution companies are rushing to meet rising demand either by signing short-term agreements or buying expensive power from the open market. Tata Power, which had anticipated a shortfall of 50-150 megawatt (MW) between April and June, will now procure additional electricity through a short-term power purchase agreement. The company received a go-ahead from the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC), a quasi-judicial body, on April 20. Tata Power, which has 750,000 consumers, has stated it will need at least 25 MW round the clock, with the requirement touching 100-150MW during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642392","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}