This is in sync with rising temperatures across the country in the past two days. It also depicts the capacity of the country's robust power sector to supply reliable power to the countrymen even as demand peaks.

Today, the peak power demand (solar hours) of 260.45 GW was met successfully at 15:40 hrs.

This is a new high, surpassing yesterday's peak demand (solar hours) of 257.37 GW, which was also successfully met.

The country has an installed capacity of over 538 GW at present (May 2026). India has added almost 314GW to its generation capacity since April 2014, thus transforming the country from power deficit to power surplus in just 12 years.