ECONOMICS

Reports and Indices Rise in Power cuts

  • According to a research report from the India Energy and Climate Centre, University of California (Berkley)
  • India’s rising electricity needs will likely be accompanied by increasing evening power cuts by 2027 because of insufficient renewable energy-powered back-up.
  • India has an installed electric capacity of 446 GW, with 211 GW coming in from coal, 195 GW from renewable energy sources, and the rest from gas and nuclear
  • However not all of this capacity is available all the time resulting in power
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