PW Bureau
For the financial year that ended on March 31, the country’s power deficit stood at 0.6 percent, just 0.1 percent down from the figures reported in FY 2017-18
New Delhi: India is still far from becoming a power-surplus nation, data sourced from the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has showed. For the financial year that ended on March 31, the country’s power deficit stood at 0.6 percent, just 0.1 percent down from the figures reported in FY 2017-18. According to CEA, a total of 1,267,209 million units (MUs) of electricity was supplied against the requirement of 1,274,564 MUs. This means that the total power supplied fell short of the demand by 7,355 MUs.
