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Power Minister R K Singh has said that power deficit, a gap between energy requirement and energy supplied, had been reduced considerably from 2 percent in April 2022 to 0.4 percent in May 2022 and 0.6 percent in June 2022, despite the significant increase in energy requirement during these months as compared to the corresponding months of May 2021 and June 2021.

The minister stated that electricity supplied grew 12.8 per cent in April 2022, as compared to the year-ago month, across India. Power requirement, on the other hand grew 14.7 per cent in April on all-India basis, resulting in a deficit of 2 per cent.  He explained that the gap between energy demand and supply is generally on account of factors other than inadequacy of power availability in the country e.g. constraints in distribution network, financial constraints, commercial reasons, forced outage of generating units etc.

Singh further said the industrial consumers consume the maximum electricity at 41.16 per cent followed by domestic consumer (25.77 per cent), agriculture consumers (17.67 per cent) and commercial 8.29 per cent. He also that the power supply hours in urban areas and rural areas as on July 8, 2022, was 23.78 hours and 21.48 hours, respectively.