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Solar, gas power generation shoots up even as electricity consumption falls

Electricity generation from coal - India's primary source of electricity - fell 32.3% to 1.91 billion units per day, the data showed

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Utilities were suffering from a prolonged industrial slowdown before the pandemic struck, with electricity demand rising only 1.2 per cent during the fiscal year ending March 2020 - the second slowest growth rate since 1984/85.

Reuters Chennai

India's solar and gas-fired electricity generation rose in April even as overall power demand fell at the steepest monthly rate in at least thirteen years, a Reuters analysis of provisional government data showed.

Solar-powered electricity generation rose 16.9 per cent, accounting for a record 5.6 per cent of the country's total output, while gas-fired power output was 13.7 per cent higher, an analysis of daily load despatch data from state-run power operator POSOCO showed. However, wind-powered electricity generation fell 11.4 per cent.

Electricity generation from coal - India's primary source of electricity - fell 32.3 per cent to 1.91 billion units per