New Delhi, March 21 -- The ongoing tensions in the Middle East are unlikely to significantly affect India's power supply, Power Secretary Pankaj Agarwal said on the sidelines of the Bharat Electricity Summit 2026.

Agarwal said India relies very little on gas-based power generation, and therefore, the Middle East crisis is expected to have minimal impact on the country's electricity supply.

"In any case, we don't use a lot of gas to meet our demand. About 2 and a half gigawatts is what we already have, which is off-grid. So that is consistently operating. That has no impact of Middle East crisis," he said.

He added that some additional gas-based capacity is used only during peak demand periods such as heat waves.

"Another about 8 gigaw...