Power consumption rose 3.6 per cent to 100.42 billion units in November

New Delhi: India's power consumption grew by 7.5 per cent to 100.5 billion units (billion units / BU) in November, according to the Ministry of Power, showing the second consecutive month of improvement.

In November last year, the power consumption was 3.2 billion units and in the same month of 2017, it was 2.3 billion units. So, in October this year, the country's electricity consumption increased by 5.5 per cent to 114.50 BU.

During November, the highest demand for electricity, or one-day supply, was recorded at 16.12 gigawatts, up from 120.6 gigawatts in the same month last year.

According to the data, November saw a recovery in power consumption as well as demand. Experts said that after the lifting of lockdown restrictions by the states, the government's efforts to increase the supply of coal to power plants and improve economic activities would speed up the recovery in power demand as well as consumption.

The 12 power plants with a capacity of more than 12 gigawatts, monitored by the Central Electricity Authority, had a stock of 12.5 lakh tonnes of coal, which was sufficient for nine days (as per the daily requirement of 12.5 lakh tonnes) on November 9, 2021.

As on November 1, 2021, the 12 monitored power plants with an installed capacity of more than 16 gigawatts monitored had a volume of 104.5 lakh tonnes of coal.