India has 275 GW of installed electricity generating capacity which is significantly higher than 140 GW of peak demand of electricity across the country. The energy generated through coal alone is higher than its peak demand. Despite the installed capacity exceeding power demand, some parts of the country face acute power shortages and more than 300 million people in India are still without access to power.
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JSW Energy to buy Jaypee´s hydropower assets
JSW Energy will buy three hydropower projects of Jaiprakash Power Ventures Ltd (JPVL), after Reliance Power Ltd (R-Power) called off its talks to buy the assets, in what it called ´regulatory uncertainties.
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Indo-Bhutan hydel projects
Under the Indo-Bhutan joint initiative, works for new hydropower projects of total 3,500 mw capacity will begin within next one year. The most important one in this list of projects is Sankosh.