{"id":53493,"date":"2024-06-19T00:42:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T14:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=53493"},"modified":"2024-06-19T00:42:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T14:42:43","slug":"power-demand-peaks-in-northern-india-heatwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=53493","title":{"rendered":"Power demand peaks in northern India heatwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Searing heatwave temperatures in northern India pushed power demand to a record high, the government said Tuesday, with residents of the capital New Delhi also struggling with water shortages.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Much of northern India has been gripped by a brutal month-long heatwave, with temperatures regularly soaring above 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit).<\/p>\n<p>Northern India has &#8220;been experiencing high demand conditions due to a prevailing heat wave&#8221; since May 17, the ministry of power said in a statement, adding it had been forced to import 25-30 percent more power from neighbouring regions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite these challenging conditions, the highest ever peak demand of 89 gigawatts in the northern region was successfully met&#8221; on Monday, it said.<\/p>\n<p>India is no stranger to scorching summer temperatures but years of scientific research have found climate change is causing heatwaves to become longer, more frequent and more intense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Searing heatwave temperatures in northern India pushed power demand to a record high, the government said Tuesday, with residents of the capital New Delhi also struggling with water shortages. Much of northern India has been gripped by a brutal month-long heatwave, with temperatures regularly soaring above 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit). Northern India has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1774],"class_list":["post-53493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-power-demand-peaks-in-northern-india-heatwave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}