India's peak power demand hits all-time high amid intense heatwave

India's peak power demand (solar hours) of 260.45 GW was met successfully on Tuesday, according to a post by Ministry of Power. "This is a new high surpassing yesterday's peak demand...of 257.37 GW which was also successfully met," the post read. This comes as severe heatwave conditions across north, central and western India sharply increased electricity consumption.