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Chandigarh’s Power Demand Soars to Season-High of 452 MW
June 12, 2025 10:40 am
As Chandigarh continues to endure a heatwave, power demand soared to a season-high of 452 MW on June 11, marking the highest electricity consumption recorded so far this year.
After cool start to June, Punjab witnesses all-time high power demand of 16,249 MW amid heatwave
June 10, 2025 9:33 pm
After an unusually cool start to June, with good rainfall last month keeping temperatures in check, the return of summer heat has caused a sharp rise in temperatures in Punjab.
After demand surge, multiple tripping incidents in northern region: NRLDC
June 19, 2024 8:06 am
The grid incident unfolded as a key body of power engineers employed across state and central utilities sounded the alarm over an impending surge in agricultural load in Punjab by end-June.
Alarm bells as heatwave pushes up peak demand, Power Ministry asks utilities to be on high alert
June 18, 2024 8:02 am
Over the last one month, the northern region has been witnessing a record demand due to the prevailing heat conditions.
India's peak power demand hovering near projected 235 GW in May amid severe heat wave
May 21, 2024 1:17 am
According to power ministry data, the peak power demand met or the highest supply in the day has already reached 233 GW on May 6 compared to 221.42 GW recorded a year ago.
Cold wave, dry spell push power demand, consumption in Punjab
January 29, 2024 8:56 am
The figures of PSPCL revealed that from January 1 to January 26 (this year), on average a total of 4,167 million units (mu) of power was consumed in the first 26 days of January 2024 compared to 3,918 mu during the corresponding period last year (2023), that is, 6% more than last year.
India's demand for electricity for ACs to exceed total power consumption of Africa: International Energy Agency
October 24, 2023 3:37 pm
India's demand for electricity for running household air conditioners is estimated to expand nine-fold by 2050 and will exceed total power consumption in the whole of Africa today, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesday.
India's power demand falls in March as rain brings some relief: CRISIL
April 12, 2023 2:32 pm
While the power demand fell in March, in the fourth quarter of FY2023, the demand rose 7 per cent year-on-year (YoY), as compared to the same period the previous year.
India's power consumption grows over 9% to 117.84 bn units in February
March 01, 2023 12:45 pm
In February 2022, power consumption stood at 108.03 billion units (BU), higher than the 103.25 BU in the same month of 2021.
India's peak power supply touches record level of 207GW on Friday
April 29, 2022 10:24 pm
"The maximum All India demand met (peak supply) touched 207111 MW at 14:50hrs today, an all time high so far," the Ministry of Power said in a tweet on Friday.
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