The power sector is gearing up and readying capacities to meet India’s growing electricity demand propelled by the surge in economic growth, power and new and renewable energy minister RK Singh said at the ET Now Global Business Summit.
“Our peak demand was 136,000 MW in 2014 and today it is 234,000 MW, and it is growing at 9%,” he said. About 190,000 MW capacity has been added in this government’s period, he added.