India power shortage fades to 0.4 MU a day in late October 2026 as demand falls

Peak-hour shortages also stopped after mid-October

Grid India publishes daily data on India's power grid. The energy shortage measures electricity demand that went unmet, in million units (MU), a measure of electrical energy. It stayed between 15 and 31 MU a day from 12 to 14 October. The shortage at the evening peak, measured in gigawatts (GW), shows how much power was missing at the busiest hour. It reached 5.8 GW on 3 October and 4.7 GW on 14 October. It was zero on most days after 18 October.

Demand fell while hydro output kept dropping

The relief did not come from more supply.

• Hydro generation fell from 601.5 MU on 29 September to 346.6 MU on 23 October.
• Coal generation was steady at roughly 3,700–4,170 MU a day.
• Energy met, meaning the demand the grid actually supplied, fell from 5,533 MU on 5 October to 5,011 MU on 23 October.
• The day's maximum demand fell from 260.7 GW to 234.0 GW.

New telecom data put India's wireless subscribers at 1,293.4m in August 2026

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) data count mobile and other wireless subscribers by operator and region. In August 2026, India had 1,293.4m (million) wireless subscribers:

• Jio: 508.4m
• Airtel: 491.6m
• Vodafone Idea: 199.6m, still slowly losing subscribers from 204.7m in April 2025
• BSNL: 93.7m

Homes and offices can get broadband over 5G fixed wireless access instead of a cable. Subscribers to this service reached 13.45m, up from 8.90m a year earlier. Jio had 9.42m of them and Airtel had 4.03m. Jio also had 5.37m subscribers to fixed wireless over unlicensed band radio (UBR). The Jio figures give context for its initial public offering (IPO).