India will need additional coal-based capacity of upto 28 GW by FY32 besides the 25GW already under construction, the draft national electricity plan said. However, the capacity addition is expected to be at the existing project sites as brownfield expansion, preferably closer to the mines, the report indicated.
The all India peak electricity demand and electrical energy requirement is 272 GW and 1,874 billion units (BU) for the year 2026-27 and 363 GW and 2,538 BU for the year 2031-32, respectively as per the preliminary estimates of Demand projections, the report showed.
