{"id":1778,"date":"2025-10-21T20:18:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2025-10-21T20:18:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:18:50","slug":"power-generation-in-jk-dips-by-nearly-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/21\/power-generation-in-jk-dips-by-nearly-45\/","title":{"rendered":"Power generation in J&#038;K dips by nearly 45%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Additional allocation of central pool in place: Officials<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Riyaz Bhat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Srinagar, Oct 21: With the onset of winters, the local hydro power generation has taken a dip by nearly 45 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Top officials informed the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the hydel power generation from the local plants has reduced by nearly 500 Megawatts (MWs).<\/p>\n<p>The official said, \u201cAs of now, on an average, we are generating nearly 500-600 MW of power. From the Baglihar power project, we are on an average generating nearly 300 MWs. This too depends on the functioning of machines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the peak season, we were generating over 1100 MWs of power from the total generation capacity of 1197.4 MW of Jammu and Kashmir power plants,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p>It also said, \u201cDue to the reduced water levels some of the small power projects in Kashmir were usually not generating any power in the month of October but this year due to the late monsoon in Jammu and Kashmir, they are doing very well in comparison to the previous years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The official further informed KNO that there were additional 800 MWs allocated from the centre. \u201cFrom this year, we have 1300 MW from the central pool. We have started banking with other states.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pertinently, till the third week of February, an official had said that Jammu and Kashmir was relying on more than 85 percent of coal and solar power amid acute deficit of hydro power generation.<\/p>\n<p>Officials of PDD department had claimed that local hydro power generation from the local power plants have reduced by nearly 90 percent.<\/p>\n<p>An official had informed that \u201cAt present Jammu and Kashmir is 85-90 percent dependent on coal and solar energy that is being procured from the other states because as of now we don\u2019t have a local power generation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn winters the local hydro power generation of Jammu and Kashmir power plants has reduced by almost 90 percent and in order to cater the requisite power demand, we need to have a base power availability that we procure from outside states. The energy is coal based energy,\u201d the official had said. 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Top officials informed the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the hydel power generation from the local plants has reduced by nearly 500 Megawatts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1779,"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":[2,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","category-kt-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","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=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}