Author: Damini Sahu
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India’s winter power test: Season of high demand, weak renewables and coal’s reluctant revival
Coal remains indispensable in winter Storage is a critical gap in scaling renewables India enters winter 2025-26 with a familiar but sharper energy puzzle: power demand rises just as renewable output weakens. From April to November 2025, electricity generation data shows a system that is gradually leaning more not less on coal as the colder…