There is adequate availability of power in the country. Present installed generation capacity of the country is 520.51 GW (as on January, 2026). Government of India has addressed the critical issue of power deficiency by adding 296.388 GW of fresh generation capacity since April, 2014 transforming the country from power deficit to power sufficient.
In the last three financial years and the current financial year i.e., 2025-26 (up to January, 2026), the ‘Energy Supplied’ has been commensurate to the ‘Energy Requirement’ with only a marginal gap that is generally on account of constraints in the State transmission / distribution network.
Government of India launched the Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme (RDSS) in July 2021 with the objective of improving the quality and reliability of power supply to consumers through a financially sustainable and operationally efficient distribution Sector. A key objective of the RDSS is to reduce the Aggregate Technical and Commercial (AT&C) losses to pan-India levels of 12-15%.
