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April 29, 2021
Thermal power among most affected segments
The lockdown restrictions across many states in the country amid the second wave of Covid-19 infections, could adversely impact the electricity demand growth prospects in FY2022.
As per the Power System Operation Corporation Limited (POSOCO) data for April 1-25 , the electricity demand is higher by 40.4% on a Y-o-Y basis, considering the favourable base effect, due to the impact of the all-India lockdown on electricity demand in April 2020.
However, the average daily demand has slowed down from 4,071 million units (MUs) (Y-o-Y growth of 48%) during the first 10 days of April 2021 to 3,923 MUs (Y-o-Y growth of 35%) during the subsequent 15 days, considering the surge in Covid cases and consequent restrictionsthat were imposed by various state governments.
updated: Mar 07 2021, 08:46 ist
On February 28, Recorded Future, a Massachusetts-based company that studies how state actors use the internet, put out a report that the massive power outage in Mumbai on October 12 may have been the handiwork of a Chinese cyberwarfare campaign against India, meant to signal to New Delhi what China could do at a time when the Indian army was locked in a border standoff with the Chinese army.
No one, including Recorded Future, is fully sure whether the power outage was indeed the result of a Chinese cyberattack, but Chinese malware has been found inserted in systems related to the power grid, especially targeting four of the national power grid’s five Regional Load Dispatch Centres (RLDC).
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