India’s electricity supply improves in cooler pre-monsoon: Kemp
India’s electricity transmission network supplied a near-record amount of power in April but the system was much more stable than the year before thanks to lower temperatures and the return of some gas-fired generation.
Total electricity supplied was almost 131 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh), the fourth-highest monthly amount on record, based on data from the Grid Controller of India’s National Load Despatch Centre.
But the total was down by more than 2.3 billion kWh (-1.8%) compared with the same month a year earlier when much of the country was sweltering in an early heatwave (“Monthly operation report”, Grid India, May 24).
