New Delhi: India’s electricity demand recorded a new high of 189.6 gigawatts (GW) on Saturday, thereby surpassing the previous all-time high electricity demand of 188.4 GW, that was recorded on 28 January.
India’ power demand has been registering record highs in January and had touched 187.3 GW on 22 January and 185.82 GW on 20 January respectively. India had recorded a peak demand of 168.74GW in FY19. The country has an installed power generation capacity of 373.43GW.
This assumes importance as energy consumption, especially that of electricity and refinery products is usually linked to overall demand in the economy. Also, this comes in the backdrop of other economic indicators such as refineries, GST collections, and railway freight witnessing a revival.
