India succeeded in fulfilling its surging energy demand because of the record output from green energy sources in the month of May.
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In April, India’s northern plains suffered extended periods of heatwave making the power demand hit a new peak. Due to shortage of coal at power plants, many parts of the country suffered blackouts. In the month of May however, despite the 23% growth in power demand since May 2021, there was enough power available because the renewable power output grew from 10% in April to 14% in May. This also helped cut down the dependency on coal, which fell from 77% to 72%. Also resulting in the increase of coal in the inventory.
India is set to see the sharpest rise in power demand this year (2022-23) in the last 38 years. On the other side the output from renewable energy has also grown at the fastest rate in the last three years by about 44%. India is still falling short of its 2022 renewable energy target by 37% as of now, according to experts that is the reason for April power shortages.
Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) said in a note that the power crisis in not yet over for India as the monsoon will hinder renewable energy work and also coal mining and the government has not taken any preemptive action against it. So a power shortage in July-August is possible.
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