{"id":30078,"date":"2026-09-10T18:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T18:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=30078"},"modified":"2026-09-10T18:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T18:51:19","slug":"jk-peak-power-demand-likely-up-450-mw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/10\/jk-peak-power-demand-likely-up-450-mw\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018J&K peak power demand likely up 450 MW\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Fiscal Year<\/strong><\/td>\nProjected Peak Demand<\/strong><\/td>\nIncrease from 2026-27<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
2026-27<\/strong><\/td>\n3,813 MW<\/strong><\/td>\n(Baseline)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2027-28<\/strong><\/td>\n3,964 MW<\/strong><\/td>\n+151 MW<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2028-29<\/strong><\/td>\n4,113 MW<\/strong><\/td>\n+300 MW<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2029-30<\/strong><\/td>\n4,262 MW<\/strong><\/td>\n+449 MW<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Srinagar, Sep 10:\u00a0<\/strong>In coming three years, Jammu and Kashmir will likely require nearly additional 450 Megawatts (MWs) of power during the peak hours.<\/p>\n

According to the official documents, authorities have projected that in the ongoing fiscal, Jammu and Kashmir will have a peak demand of 3813 MWs.<\/p>\n

It also said that in the coming fiscal 2027-28, the region is likely to require additional 151 MWs of power during the peak time with a total demand projection of 3964 MWs.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the projections said that in the year 2028-29, Jammu and Kashmir may require additional 300 MWs of power during the peak hours in comparison to the projected demand of the ongoing fiscal.<\/p>\n

The official figures also said that in the year 2029-30, Jammu and Kashmir will likely have a peak demand of 4262 MWs that amounts to 449 MWs of additional energy demand to the projection made for the year 2026-27.<\/p>\n

Pertinently, as already reported by KNO, in the past 12 years, Jammu and Kashmir has witnessed a surge in power demand by more than 24 percent.<\/p>\n

The Government of India (GoI) had said that from the fiscal 2014-15 to 2025-26, Jammu and Kashmir recorded a surge in demand of 3,971 MU.<\/p>\n

The official figures further reveal that the annual energy demand in J&K rose from 16,214 Million Units (MU) in 2014-15 to 20,185 MU in 2025-26.<\/p>\n

It also said that the peak power demand at 20,374 MU was recorded in 2024-25.<\/p>\n

The GoI had also said that the actual power supply position of the region jumped from 13,119 MU in 2014-15 to 20,166 MU in 2025-26 that amounts to a massive 53.7% increase in available energy\u2014(KNO)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Fiscal Year Projected Peak Demand Increase from 2026-27 2026-27 3,813 MW (Baseline) 2027-28 3,964 MW +151 MW 2028-29 4,113 MW +300 MW 2029-30 4,262 MW +449 MW Srinagar, Sep 10:\u00a0In coming three years, Jammu and Kashmir will likely require nearly additional 450 Megawatts (MWs) of power during the peak hours. According to the official […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30079,"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-30078","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\/30078","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=30078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30080,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30078\/revisions\/30080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}