India, Oct. 15 -- Electricity demand in India doesn't really take a break, and every year it seems to jump a bit more than people guessed. Cities keep growing, factories keep running, and cooling needs go up with every hot spell. Clean power is coming in fast, no doubt, but the grid still needs something steady to lean on when the sun goes down and the wind drops.

Why India Is Looking at Much More Coal Power India may need to add 105 to 150 GW of coal based power capacity by 2035, higher than the earlier plan of adding about 97 GW. Central Electricity Authority Chairperson Ghanshyam Prasad said this at the India Energy Summit organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce. The count starts from a March 2023 base, and the earlier plan would...