Power supply crunch: Diesel gensets’ capacity at close to 100 GW
Amid a growing demand-supply mismatch of electricity and high cost of power to commercial units, businesses and other establishments are increasingly relying on diesel generators (gensets) to ensure uninterrupted power supplies. At last count, the country’s diesel genset capacity was about 95 gigawatt (GW), or a quarter of the total installed power capacity in the country (400 GW).
As against this, renewable energy capacity (wind+solar) at the end of April 2022 was 109 GW, but the power generated in these units is just a quarter of that at present.
