NEW DELHI – High temperatures across parts of India have pushed electricity demand to near-record levels in recent weeks, triggering worries about yet another summer squeeze on power supply.
The unusually early onset of hotter weather – and forecasts that power consumption will rise as irrigation pumps and air conditioners are cranked up – is fueling concern India’s energy network will come under new strain, after two successive years of disruptions. “The way temperature is rising – it’s quite unusual in February – the situation is becoming a matter of concern for us,” according to Mr Bhanwar Singh Bhati, power minister in the northern state of Rajasthan, where power supplies are already being rationed to homes and farmers.
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