India is still not power surplus as envisaged because peak power deficit in April-July was 0.9%, while overall electricity deficit stood at 0.6% during the four-month period this fiscal.
As much as 170.76 GW was supplied during peak hours against the demand of 172.38 GW in April-July this fiscal, resulting in a deficit of 0.9%, the Central Electricity Authority’s (CEA) latest power supply data showed.
Overall 433.48 Billion Units (BU) of electricity were supplied against the demand of 436.14 BU during the four-month period, which indicated a deficit of 0.6%. The CEA has pegged energy and peak power surplus at 4.6% and 2.5%, respectively, in 2018-19 in its load generation balance report (LGBR), which indicates that India will be a power surplus country in 2018-19.
Last year, the CEA had also projected that India would become a power surplus nation in its LGBR. “All India power supply position indicates that the country is likely to have a peak surplus of 6.8% and energy (electricity) surplus of 8.8% (in 2017-18),” the report had said.
