India needs rapid scale-up in power capacity: Sagar Adani

Mumbai: Building energy infrastructure at scale and speed will be critical to India's long-term resilience and economic stability, Adani Group executive director Sagar Adani said on Tuesday, calling for a sharp expansion in power capacity.

Speaking at The Economist Enterprise’s Resilient Futures Summit in New Delhi, he said the ability to create large-scale infrastructure with purpose will determine how well countries withstand global disruptions.

"The real question is not whether India will need more energy-that is already clear. The real question is: how fast can we build it?" he said.


With per capita energy consumption at about one-third of the global average and roughly one-fifth of China's, India faces a structural challenge rather than an incremental one, he said.

To achieve its goal of becoming a developed economy by 2047, India will need to add nearly 2,000 GW of power generation capacity over the next two decades.

Adani called for faster electrification across sectors and lower dependence on imported fuels, positioning electrification as a key pathway to long-term stability.