New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- India's power grid must integrate artificial intelligence (AI) to improve grid management, enable predictive maintenance and forecast outages ahead of time, Union ministers Manohar Lal Khattar and Pralhad Joshi said on Wednesday.

Speaking at a brainstorming conclave organised by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) on 'Making the Indian Power Sector AI enabled', Union power minister Manohar Lal Khattar said India's installed power generation capacity had already touched 555 GW, with a record addition of 70 GW planned in 2026-27. However, there was a need to introduce AI and optimise these assets, which the government was exploring, he said.

"Our goal is to quadruple the generation capacity by 2047.the future of ...