New Delhi: India’s electricity demand is inching closer to the pre-lockdown level due to heat wave conditions across the country, a sigh of relief for thermal power plants which operated at the lowest ever capacities in the last two months.
Data available with Power System Operation Corporation (Posoco) showed that demand for power has been inching upward from below 3,000 million units per day during lockdown to about 3,400 million units now.
Experts said the demand could have reached about 3,550 million units per day but due to Cyclone Amphan consumption from eastern region was reduced over last two days. On May 23, the demand was 3,656 million units against 3,944 million units on May 25, 2019.
