NEW DELHI, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- India registered an energy deficit of 18,969 million units in the current year, 7.9 percent of the energy availability in the country.
"The energy requirement and energy availability in the country during the year 2007-08 was 240,834 million units and 221,865 MU respectively resulting in energy deficit of 18.969 MU. The gross energy generated in the country during the said period was 234,208 MU including import from Bhutan," Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said in Parliament Monday.
He said among the states, Maharashtra, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram faced peak shortages of more than 25 percent and Meghalaya faced peak as well as energy shortage of more than 25 percent during April-July 2007.
Shinde said the actual energy generation in the country during the 10th five-year plan period was 98.9 percent of the target. India decides energy generation targets on an annual basis.
He said the national electricity policy envisages power for all by 2012 and per capita availability of power to be increased to more than 1,000 units by 2011-12.
