{"id":645328,"date":"2025-09-08T12:22:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T06:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=645328"},"modified":"2025-09-08T13:26:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:56:41","slug":"up-indias-3rd-largest-economy-but-per-capita-power-usage-among-lowest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/up-indias-3rd-largest-economy-but-per-capita-power-usage-among-lowest\/","title":{"rendered":"UP India\u2019s 3rd largest economy but per capita power usage among lowest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uttar Pradesh\u2019s per capita electricity consumption remains among the lowest in the country \u2014 a reality energy minister AK Sharma admitted while saying, \u201cIt is my dream that people get 24\u00d77 power by 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The remarks come as the state electricity regulator prepares to announce a new tariff order this month, after discoms proposed a steep 40% hike. NITI Aayog\u2019s data for 2022-23 shows UP\u2019s per capita consumption at just 723 units, far below the national average of 1,327 units, underscoring the state\u2019s struggle with low incomes, restricted supply and high tariffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uttar Pradesh\u2019s per capita electricity consumption remains among the lowest in the country \u2014 a reality energy minister AK Sharma admitted while saying, \u201cIt is my dream that people get 24\u00d77 power by 2027.\u201d The remarks come as the state electricity regulator prepares to announce a new tariff order this month, after discoms proposed a steep 40% hike. NITI Aayog\u2019s data for 2022-23 shows UP\u2019s per capita consumption at just 723 units, far below the national average of 1,327 units, underscoring the state\u2019s struggle with low incomes, restricted supply and high tariffs.<\/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-645328","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\/645328","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=645328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}