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A rapid addition of solar farms has helped India avert daytime supply gaps, but a shortage of coal-fired and hydropower capacity risks exposing millions to widespread outages at night
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	<a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/topic/india" rel="noopener" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(37, 145, 220); text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px !important;" target="_blank">India</a>&nbsp;faces a high risk of nighttime&nbsp;<a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/topic/power-cuts" rel="noopener" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(37, 145, 220); text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px !important;" target="_blank">power cuts</a>&nbsp;this summer and in coming years, as delays in adding new coal-fired and&nbsp;<a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/topic/hydropower" rel="noopener" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(37, 145, 220); text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px !important;" target="_blank">hydropower</a>&nbsp;capacity could limit the country&#39;s ability to address surging electricity demand when solar energy is not available.</p>
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	A rapid addition of solar farms has helped&nbsp;<a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/topic/india" rel="noopener" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(37, 145, 220); text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px !important;" target="_blank">India</a>&nbsp;avert daytime supply gaps, but a shortage of coal-fired and&nbsp;<a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/topic/hydropower" rel="noopener" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(37, 145, 220); text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px !important;" target="_blank">hydropower</a>&nbsp;capacity risks exposing millions to widespread outages at night, government data and internal documents reviewed by Reuters show.<br />
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	India&#39;s power availability in &quot;non-solar hours&quot; this April is expected to be 1.7% lower than peak demand - a measure of the maximum electricity requirement over any given time, an internal note by the federal grid regulator reviewed by Reuters showed.</p>
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	April nighttime peak demand is expected to hit 217 gigawatts (GW), up 6.4% on the highest nighttime levels recorded in April last year.</p>
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	&quot;The situation is a little stressed,&quot; Grid Controller of&nbsp;<a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/topic/india" rel="noopener" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(37, 145, 220); text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px !important;" target="_blank">India</a>&nbsp;Ltd (Grid-India) said in the note dated Feb. 3.<br />
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	While Indians looking to beat the heat this summer will want steady power for their air-conditioners, night time outage risks threaten industries that operate around the clock, including auto, electronics, steel bar and fertiliser manufacturing plants.</p>
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	&quot;If there is a power cut even for one minute, paper pulp gets blocked and messes up the delicate process and causes hundreds of thousands of rupees in losses,&quot; said P.G. Mukundan Nair, former chief of an Indian paper industry body who has been in paper manufacturing for nearly three decades.</p>
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	&quot;Even the smallest interruption in power supply will create havoc,&quot; Nair said.</p>
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	The electricity deficits this summer could be worse than expected, as Grid-India&#39;s shortage forecasts were made weeks before India&#39;s weather office predicted heat waves between March and May.</p>

A rapid addition of solar farms has helped India avert daytime supply gaps, but a shortage of coal-fired and hydropower capacity risks exposing millions to widespread outages at night
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India faces high power cut risks after years of coal, hydropower neglect

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