{"id":18334,"date":"2026-04-29T00:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=18334"},"modified":"2026-04-29T00:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:49:00","slug":"hydel-power-generation-of-jk-sees-a-steep-16-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/hydel-power-generation-of-jk-sees-a-steep-16-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydel power generation of J&K sees a steep 16% decline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly 3-5% annual fall over five years rings alarm bells<\/strong><\/p>\n

Srinagar, Apr 28: From 17,489 Million Units (MUs) in 2020-21 to just 14,660 MUs in 2025-26, Jammu and Kashmir in nearly past five years has recorded a decline in hydel power generation by over 16 percent\u2014reflecting an average annual fall of nearly 3-5 percent.<\/p>\n

The official figures available with the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) revealing the power generation of J&K in MUs from 2020-21 to January 2026 states that there has been a power generation fall by 16.18 percent.<\/p>\n

The figures reveal that in the year 2020-21, J&K had generated a total of 17,489.83 MUs of power followed by 17,170.62 MUs in the year 2022-23.<\/p>\n

It also said that during the year 2023-24, Jammu and Kashmir was able to generate only 16,282.93 MUs of energy followed by 15,595.82 MUs in 2024-25.<\/p>\n

The figures further states that in the year 2025-2026: upto January-2026, J&K had generated only 14,659.92 MUs of power.<\/p>\n

Stating the source and state wise generation data from various sources including thermal, hydro, nuclear and renewable energy for 2025-26 (upto January, 2026), the official figures reveal that a total of 14,659.92 MUs from renewable sources were generated by J&K including<\/p>\n

375.01 MUs by the small hydro projects and 14,284.91 MUs from large hydro projects.<\/p>\n

As already reported by KNO, 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\u2014signalling major infrastructure upgrades to avoid seasonal blackouts.<\/p>\n

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

As per the documents, 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

Pertinently, the news agency has reported that 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

Earlier KNO had 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. (KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nearly 3-5% annual fall over five years rings alarm bells Srinagar, Apr 28: From 17,489 Million Units (MUs) in 2020-21 to just 14,660 MUs in 2025-26, Jammu and Kashmir in nearly past five years has recorded a decline in hydel power generation by over 16 percent\u2014reflecting an average annual fall of nearly 3-5 percent. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18335,"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-18334","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\/18334","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=18334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18336,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18334\/revisions\/18336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}