{"id":660818,"date":"2026-05-23T11:20:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660818"},"modified":"2026-05-23T12:48:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T07:18:42","slug":"use-electricity-wisely-says-government-as-demand-still-at-record-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/use-electricity-wisely-says-government-as-demand-still-at-record-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Use electricity wisely, says government as demand still at record levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A day after peak power demand broke all previous records and reached the projected level of 271 gigawatts (GW), the power ministry on Friday urged citizens to use electricity &#8220;wisely and judiciously&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said the intense heatwave sweeping the country had pushed electricity demand to record levels over the last four days. &#8220;Although we are prepared to supply electricity as required, due to the intense summer, let us all try to use electricity wisely and judiciously,&#8221; the ministry said on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A day after peak power demand broke all previous records and reached the projected level of 271 gigawatts (GW), the power ministry on Friday urged citizens to use electricity &#8220;wisely and judiciously&#8221;. The ministry said the intense heatwave sweeping the country had pushed electricity demand to record levels over the last four days. &#8220;Although we are prepared to supply electricity as required, due to the intense summer, let us all try to use electricity wisely and judiciously,&#8221; the ministry said on X.<\/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-660818","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\/660818","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=660818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660819,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660818\/revisions\/660819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}