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Power Secretary Pankaj Agarwal has said that India's peak power demand may surpass the projected 384 GW mark and cross even a new level of 400 gigawatt (GW) by 2031-32. He said that peak power demand had already reached the 250 GW mark in May 2024.  

Agarwal said the way power demand has grown in some states in the last two years, the demand will touch 384 GW and may easily cross 400 GW by 2031-32. He said ‘for this we must have an installed power generation capacity of 900 GW’. The government projection for this year's peak power demand was 260 GW.

The secretary said the anticipated 260 GW peak demand is expected to reach by September. At the onset of the monsoon, the peak power demand has been showing a downward trend over the last few days. As per official data, the peak power demand was at 209 GW on July 1, 2024.