For the first time, power deficit during peak demand period has dipped below 1,000 MW while the nation met some 136.71 GW of demand last Sunday. Shortage was less than 1% of the total demand met. <\/p>\n
In contrast, last year, the deficit around the same day was around 4,579 MW while the country managed to meet a total peak demand of about 134.9 GW. <\/p>\n
Demand for power during Sunday’s are comparatively less than week days when a chunk of the demand from commercial establishments and offices remains almost non-existent. This brought down the peak demand shortage to 0.7% on the day. <\/p>\n
Power position has improved due to adequate availability of coal and a rise in generation capacity. In fact, on Monday, some 2.8 GW of power was available for sale at an average price of Rs 2.05 per unit. <\/p>\n
In fact, thermal power stations have around 32.7 million tonnes of coal stock which is enough for 22 days. Another 55 million tonnes of coal is stocks at Coal India’s pit heads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For the first time, power deficit during peak demand period has dipped below 1,000 MW while the nation met some 136.71 GW of demand last Sunday. Shortage was less than 1% of the total demand met. In contrast, last year, the deficit around the same day was around 4,579 MW while the country managed to meet a total peak demand of about 134.9 GW. Demand for power during Sunday’s are comparatively less than week days when a chunk of the demand from commercial establishments and offices remains almost non-existent. This brought down the peak demand shortage to 0.7% on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}