Commercial power demand pick-up to take 6 months: Tata Power DDL CEO

"Ultimately, it is state discoms that do not have the desired level of performance. Private discoms have a good level of service and transparency as is evident in Delhi," he says

At a time when India’s electricity demand reached an all-time high of 187 Gw, Delhi is witnessing an increase in domestic power consumption with commercial demand yet to recover. In an interview with Jyoti Mukul, Tata Power Delhi Distribution chief executive officer (CEO) Ganesh Srinivasan says the biggest challenge for his company is that the regulator is not allowing it a tariff that could recover the cost of serving customers.

Has the power demand fully recovered and what is the mix now?

We are roughly at the same level as last year. Commercial demand and that from schools and other