Analysis: Dark summer nights: India faces high risks of power cuts after years of coal, hydro power neglect

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India faces a high risk of night time power cuts this summer and in coming years, as delays in adding new coal-fired and hydropower capacity could limit the country's ability to address surging electricity demand when solar energy is not available

India's federal power secretary Alok Kumar downplayed concerns, saying the government had taken "all steps" to avoid power cuts.After the Grid-India report, the government brought forward maintenance at some coal-fired power plants and secured extra gas-fired capacity to run to try to avert outages, another senior government official said.

However Grid-India has forecast peak hydro availability in April this year will be 18% below what it was a year earlier, when output was boosted by favourable weather conditions. As of last April, solar boosted renewables' contribution to as much as 18% of India's generation in the middle of the day.Around midnight through April last year, jostling for power was intense, with buyers making bids for five times more power than sellers offered, a Reuters analysis of data from the Indian Energy Exchange, the country's most liquid electricity trading platform, showed.

 

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No changes there then, had those power cuts back in the 70’s, no notice of power going off, only knew when the American Consulate’s generator used to fire up big time

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