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Each update is read against the source notification and summarised: what changed, who it affects and what's due. Open one for the full brief, with the official source linked first.
Sector data
India's power sector in numbers
Seven sections: capacity, generation, demand and supply, renewables, grid and transmission, markets, and coal. Figures come from CEA, Grid-India, the Ministry of Coal, MNRE, IEX and NITI Aayog's India Climate & Energy Dashboard. Click a number to open its section. Terms are explained in the glossary.
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Editorial policy and methodology
- The official notification, order or gazette copy is linked first. News coverage is only a second source.
- Each update shows the date we last checked it and its status: draft, comments closed, final, in force.
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Source policy: where the data comes from
- CEA monthly executive summaries: capacity, generation, plant load factor, supply position, transmission.
- National Power Portal (npp.gov.in), which publishes CEA's daily and monthly reports: installed capacity, conventional generation, plant load factor by owner and company, and daily coal stocks at power plants.
- Grid-India (NLDC) monthly operating reports: demand, solar, wind, hydro, frequency, short-term trade.
- Ministry of Coal monthly statistics and Coal Directory; MNRE, IEX and NITI Aayog's ICED for the rest.
- Each chart names its source. Provisional figures are labelled and replaced when revised.
Corrections
Glossary of terms used on this site
- BU / MU
- Billion units / million units of electricity. 1 unit = 1 kWh; 1 BU = 1,000 MU = 1 TWh.
- GW / MW
- Gigawatt / megawatt, a measure of capacity or of demand at an instant. 1 GW = 1,000 MW.
- Peak demand met
- The highest demand the grid actually supplied at any moment in a day or month.
- Energy not supplied / shortage
- Demand that could not be met, usually because of local supply limits or load shedding.
- PLF (plant load factor)
- Energy a plant produced as a share of what it could produce running all the time at full capacity.
- T&D and AT&C losses
- Transmission and distribution losses; aggregate technical and commercial losses also count unbilled and uncollected power.
- ckm
- Circuit kilometres of transmission line. A double-circuit line 100 km long is 200 ckm.
- MVA / GVA
- Transformer capacity at substations. 1 GVA = 1,000 MVA.
- Grid frequency band
- India's Grid Code asks frequency to stay between 49.90 and 50.05 Hz; time spent inside the band shows how well the grid is balanced.
- ISTS
- Inter-State Transmission System, the national grid run by central transmission companies; its charges are shared under CERC rules.
- STOA
- Short-term open access: power bought for under a month, either bilaterally or on the power exchanges.
- DAM / RTM / G-DAM
- Exchange markets: day-ahead, real-time (every 30 minutes), and green day-ahead for renewable power.
- REC
- Renewable energy certificate: 1 certificate = 1 MWh of renewable generation, traded to meet renewable purchase obligations.
- ALMM
- MNRE's Approved List of Models and Manufacturers. List-I covers solar modules, List-II solar cells.
- Section 11 direction
- An order under Section 11 of the Electricity Act 2003 telling generators how to operate in extraordinary situations.
- SERC
- State Electricity Regulatory Commission, the regulator for retail tariffs and open access in each state.
- Captive plant
- A power plant built mainly to supply its owner's own use, such as a steel or cement factory.
- Rakes
- Full coal trains. Rakes loaded per day measure how fast coal moves from mines to plants.
- Proved / indicated / inferred
- Coal resources by geological confidence, from drilled and well-known (proved) to estimated (inferred).
- FY
- Indian financial year, April to March. FY27 = April 2026 to March 2027.
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