Power demand touched an all-time high of 189.64 GW on Saturday, Power Secretary S N Sahai has said.
“Power demand galloping. All India demand: 1,89,644 MW (189.64 GW) at 10.39 hrs today (January 30) crossed the previous highest all India demand of 1,88,452 MW (188.45 GW) on 28th January,” Sahai has tweeted.
Last week, Power Minister R K Singh had exuded confidence that power demand will cross 200 GW mark soon.
On Friday last, Singh had tweeted, “The power demand and supply surged to a new high of 1,88,452 MW at 9:42 am on 28th January 2021. The rate at which we are going, we shall cross 2,00,000 MW very soon.”
