India's March electricity use falls 9.2pc over national shutdown

India’s electricity use fell 9.2% in March, provisional government data showed on Wednesday.

By :  migrator
Update: 2020-04-01 10:38 GMT

Chennai

As consumption fell for the first time in three months due to a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Electricity supply fell to 100.2 billion units in March from 110.33 billion a year earlier, an analysis of load despatch data by state-run POSOCO showed.

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