Data with the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has revealed that country's peak power deficit shrank to 2.9 per cent in November from a month earlier as a delayed Winter lowered electricity demand and utilities added generation capacity
The peak power deficit, or the shortage of electricity supply when demand is at the maximum, stood at 3,736 MW last month, provisional data with the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) showed. Electricity demand in November was 127,665 MW, of which 123,929 MW was met. The peak electricity requirement in the northern region comprising Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan was 35,755 MW, of which 35,365 MW was met, a shortfall of 1.1 per cent, the Central Electricity Authority data showed.
Power supplied to the eastern states of Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Sikkim, Odisha and Andaman and Nicobar Islands was 14,806 MW against demand of 15,016 MW. The region had a shortfall of 1.4 per cent. The peak electricity shortage in the northeastern states of Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Tripura and Nagaland was 3.9 per cent, with power demand at 2,046 MW and supply at 1,966 MW, it added.