Capacity gets you in. Intelligence keeps you ahead: Inside Hindustan Power’s AI rebuild

On 21 May, India’s power system did something it had never done before. As heatwaves gripped the country, peak demand touched 270.82 GW, a fourth consecutive daily record. Thermal plants supplied a little under two thirds of it and solar around a fifth, according to the Ministry of Power. The grid held.

But the headline number hides the harder story, which is what happens on either side of the peak.
Analysis by the energy think tank Ember found that on a single March day, solar and wind supplied 41 per cent of India’s midday generation. By then coal output had been pushed down by roughly 49 GW in six hours, only to be called back up just as quickly once the sun set and evening demand arrived.

Arman Puri, Director at Hindustan Power,quotes the same pattern, with coal rising by 51 GW in just three hours of the evening...

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