HYDERABAD: Southern states account for 27% of the country’s power consumption and even managed an all-time peak demand of 60,876 MW this April. Despite the pandemic, the energy sector’s installed capacity in the south has also gone up.
Revealing this at the 42nd Southern Region Power Committee (SRPC) meeting held in Benguluru on Saturday, committee chairperson D Prabhakar Rao, who is also CMD of Telangana State Genco and Transco, said when the entire nation was passing through a critical power situation, the southern states were able to counter the challenges effectively.
