Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy launched a mobile application “Vidyut PRAVAH”- Electricity, Price Availability and Highlights’” at a function on 31st March 2016. The mobile application provides highlights of the power availability in the country on real time basis. The mobile application will empower the Common People to demand 24x7 power from the States.

The Vidyut PRAVAH mobile application provides data pertaining to market price of power from power exchange, value of current all India demand in GW and all India and State shortage including peak hour and total energy shortage. The real time data and comparison with previous day/year data is also available. Data from multiple sources, including the States and Power Exchanges, has been made available through a single portal for convenience of all.