{"id":658954,"date":"2026-02-28T11:41:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658954"},"modified":"2026-02-28T11:41:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:11:04","slug":"power-consumption-in-tamil-nadu-spikes-crosses-400mu-mark-as-night-time-temperatures-surge-in-several-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-consumption-in-tamil-nadu-spikes-crosses-400mu-mark-as-night-time-temperatures-surge-in-several-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"Power consumption in Tamil Nadu spikes, crosses 400MU-mark as night-time temperatures surge in several districts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: With several districts starting to record above-normal night temperatures over the past few days, the state&#8217;s daily power consumption started surging and crossed 400 million units (MU) for the first time this year, hitting 405.9MU on Tuesday, though this is only a transition season before summer arrives. Power consumption breached the 400MU mark on March 7 last year.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, the state&#8217;s daily consumption on Feb 24 was 373.72MU, while the peak demand recorded was 18,318MW. Chennai&#8217;s power demand slowly started increasing, with 71.2MU of consumption and 3,372MW peak power demand on Tuesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: With several districts starting to record above-normal night temperatures over the past few days, the state&#8217;s daily power consumption started surging and crossed 400 million units (MU) for the first time this year, hitting 405.9MU on Tuesday, though this is only a transition season before summer arrives. Power consumption breached the 400MU mark on March 7 last year. In 2025, the state&#8217;s daily consumption on Feb 24 was 373.72MU, while the peak demand recorded was 18,318MW. Chennai&#8217;s power demand slowly started increasing, with 71.2MU of consumption and 3,372MW peak power demand on Tuesday.<\/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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658954","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=658954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}