South Asian nation depends on imports for bulk of its oil and gas needs

Stuti Mishra
Wednesday 29 April 2026 13:41 BST

The Indian government has urged households to shift their electricity use to daytime hours as a way of reducing the country’s dependence on energy imports, which have been affected by the US-Israeli war on Iran.

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The greater opportunity, he said, lay in getting people to harness cheap solar power during the day for cooking, charging vehicles and running appliances instead of drawing on fossil-fuel generation at night.

"If that can be shifted before 5pm, then shifting of the use of energy before the sunset will add maximum to our import reduction," he said.

"Install rooftop solar, charge your EV and entirely, in real sense, it is net zero."

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