The Delhi government has written to the Ministry of Power (MoP) for allowing it to retain 728 MW of electricity from NTPC Limited’s Dadri-II plant.
Without Dadri-II, demand-supply deficit will increase, risking outages in Delhi, the letter noted. Notably, through a letter dated July 6, 2015, Delhi had surrendered power from 11 central generating stations, including Dadri stage-II, with immediate effect and to reallocate it to other needy states, which the MoP, in March 2022, reallocated to Haryana. Delhi’s power demand has witnessed an unprecedented rise – from 5,846 MW in 2015 to expected power demand of 8,200 MW in 2022.