Good rains to improve power generation
Sudheer Pal Singh / New Delhi August 25, 2008, 0:49 IST The country's energy deficit is likely to improve as hydro power stations are in a position to ramp up their generation capacity following healthy rainfall in the second fortnight of July, wiping out initial shortfall in rains. The cumulative storage position of the 81 major reservoirs in the country has more than doubled to 74.3 billion cubic metres (bcm) at the end of the second week of August, compared with 33.38 bcm a month earlier, according to the latest data available from the Ministry of Water Resources.