Due to weak monsoon rainfall leading to the drying up of hydroelectric power reservoirs, and hot weather putting tremendous pressure on the national grid, India's electricity gap rose sharply in September, setting a record high for that month in nearly ten years. According to media analysis of India's power grid control center data, for more than half of this month, the daily peak electricity gap during the evening period exceeded 2 gigawatts, and occasionally even exceeded 6 gigawatts. This was the worst energy shortage the country experienced in September since 2017. This shortage of electricity is due to below-normal rainfall causing large areas of the country to become extremely hot, thereby boosting the demand for air conditioning and cooling. At the same time, hydropower generation has declined, and coal-fired power plants are also facing logistics bottlenecks.

Due to weak monsoon rainfall leading to the drying up of hydroelectric power reservoirs, and hot weather putting tremendous pressure on the national grid, India's electricity gap rose sharply in September, setting a record high for that month in nearly ten years. According to media analysis of India's power grid control center data, for more than half of this month, the daily peak electricity gap during the evening period exceeded 2 gigawatts, and occasionally even exceeded 6 gigawatts. This was the worst energy shortage the country experienced in September since 2017. This shortage of electricity is due to below-normal rainfall causing large areas of the country to become extremely hot, thereby boosting the demand for air conditioning and cooling. At the same time, hydropower generation has declined, and coal-fired power plants are also facing logistics bottlenecks.