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India’s record power peak tests evening grid – Coal, hydro, and rail corridors carry the load

May 20, 2026

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by

Yuvraj Chouhan

in Non Coking

Evening peak on grid hit 238.4 GW; all-India demand tops 257.4 GW Market ceiling hit for 8 hours; outages signal coal fleet stress India’s power system has entered a tighter, hotter summer than planners expected. On 18 May, total all India peak demand reached about 257.37 GW, while demand incident on the transmission grid peaked…