Power deficit came down from 2 per cent in April to 0.4 per cent in May and 0.6 per cent in June despite significant rise in demand of electricity, Parliament was informed on Thursday.
In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Power Minister R K Singh said electricity supplied grew 12.8 per cent in April 2022, as compared to the year-ago month, across India.
Power requirement, on the other hand grew 14.7 per cent in April on all-India basis, resulting in a deficit of 2 per cent.
“The gap between energy requirement and energy supplied had been reduced considerably...To 0.4 per cent and 0.6 per cent during the months of May 2022 and June 2022 respectively, despite the significant increase in energy requirement during these months as compared to the corresponding months of May 2021 and June 2021,” he said.
The gap between energy demand and supply is generally on account of factors other than inadequacy of power availability in the country e.g. Constraints in distribution network, financial constraints, commercial reasons, forced outage of generating units etc, he explained.