NEW DELHI: Installed generation capacity addition in the power sector was driven by the government in the year 2019-20, while the private sector did not add a single unit, the economic survey showed.
The survey, tabled in Parliament by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday, showed that about 60% of the nearly 7,000-mw added in the financial year was by Central PSUs and the remaining by state generation companies. This is against about 5,500-mw added a year ago, in which nearly 2,000-mw were added by CPSUs and about 3,000-mw by state PSUs and about 500-mw by the private sector.
