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Amidst rising powerfulness request with soaring temperatures crossed the country, India was capable to conscionable a highest powerfulness request of 260.45 gigawatts during star hours astatine 3:40 p.m. connected Tuesday (May 19, 2026), the Union Power Ministry informed connected Tuesday (May 19, 2026).
The latest feat surpassed the erstwhile highest of 257.37 gigawatts which was scaled Monday (May 18, 2026).
According to information from the ministry, thermal accounted for 61.5% of the powerfulness generated astatine the highest hour, star 22%, upwind 6.7%, hydro 5.3% and atomic 2.7%.
Referring to the highest powerfulness request met connected Tuesday (May 19, 2026), the Power Ministry held, “This capableness to present connected rising powerfulness request is not a communicative of overnight translation but 1 of sustained absorption connected generation, transmission and organisation implicit the past fewer years.”
As connected May this year, India has an installed capableness of much than 538 gigawatts.
Of this, the installed renewable sources-based capableness is 283.46 GW inclusive of 150.26 GW solar, 56.09 GW wind, 11.75 bioenergy, 5.17 tiny hydro and 51.41 GW ample hydro.
Nuclear powerfulness accounts for the remainder 8.78 GW of the installed capableness from non-renewable sources.
