{"id":17699,"date":"2026-04-22T01:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=17699"},"modified":"2026-04-22T01:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:35:06","slug":"jk-braces-for-7-gw-winter-load-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/jk-braces-for-7-gw-winter-load-by-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"J&K braces for 7 GW winter load by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emergency Power Supply load projected to reach 4,211 MW<\/strong><\/p>\n

Srinagar, Apr 21:\u00a0<\/strong>In a stark warning, Jammu and Kashmir has indicated that a power load requirement of up to 7 Gigawatts (GWs) by the coming five years needs to be considered in the winter season\u2014signaling major infrastructure upgrades to avoid seasonal blackouts.<\/p>\n

However, the officials have conservatively trimmed the load requirement to 5 GW by the financial year 2029-30.<\/p>\n

The statutory body Northern Regional Power Committee (NRPC) in a joint study meeting has said that \u201cJ&K indicated that a load of 6-7GW needs to be considered in the winter season by 2029-30.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, on conservative side load is considered to the tune of 5 GW,\u201d it reads.<\/p>\n

Stating the details of Northern Region states load considered in Power System Simulator for Engineering (PSSE) for 2029-2030, the committee has projected 4211 Megawatts (MWs) of Emergency Power Supply (EPS) load in J&K by 2029-2030 timeframe.<\/p>\n

However, the load considered in the revised PSSE file is 5000 MWs.<\/p>\n

Pertinently, as already reported by KNO, Jammu and Kashmir was importing more than 95 percent of its electricity in the month of December.<\/p>\n

The officials earlier in the month had informed that Jammu and Kashmir is importing electricity ranging from 2900 MWs to 3100 MWs during the peak hours.<\/p>\n

It also said that during the other hours, the region is importing electricity ranging from 2400 MWs to 2800 MWs.<\/p>\n

The official however had clarified that the power import includes all the sources including the power allocated from the center and other Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs).<\/p>\n

Earlier the news agency reported that Jammu and Kashmir is likely to face a four percent Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) increase in electricity requirement and six percent increase in peak electricity demand for the period of 2025-26 to 2035-36.<\/p>\n

The official documents in this regard reveal that it has considered electrical energy requirement projections as per J&K State Load Dispatch Center (SLDC).<\/p>\n

The documents further reveal that the SLDC has projected that the annual electrical energy requirement of the UT is likely to grow at a CAGR of 4 percent while the peak electricity demand for the utility is likely to grow at a CAGR of 6 percent for the period of 2025-26 to 2035-36\u2014(KNO)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emergency Power Supply load projected to reach 4,211 MW Srinagar, Apr 21:\u00a0In a stark warning, Jammu and Kashmir has indicated that a power load requirement of up to 7 Gigawatts (GWs) by the coming five years needs to be considered in the winter season\u2014signaling major infrastructure upgrades to avoid seasonal blackouts. However, the officials have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17701,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17699\/revisions\/17701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}