India witnessed a five-fold increase in the additional power
generation capacity during the last nine years as per the official data
released by the union government on 2 June 2013. It has gone up from
over 3900 MW in 2004-05 to 20660 MW in 2012-13. Over 9 lakh million
units of power was generated in 2012-13 as against 5.8 lakh Million
Units in 2004-05.
The total installed capacity of electricity generation was more than
two lakh 23 thousand MW as on 31 March 2013 while the demand was one
lakh 35 thousand MW. Power sector has grown positively over the 11th
plan period registering a growth rate of nearly 4 per cent in 2012-13.
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