{"id":30298,"date":"2026-09-14T19:45:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=30298"},"modified":"2026-09-14T19:45:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:45:01","slug":"jks-domestic-power-demand-likely-to-surge-11-by-fy32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/jks-domestic-power-demand-likely-to-surge-11-by-fy32\/","title":{"rendered":"J&K\u2019s domestic power demand likely to surge 11% by FY32"},"content":{"rendered":"

Srinagar, Sep 14 (KNO):\u00a0<\/strong>Jammu and Kashmir power sector is facing a massive transformation as the domestic power demand is projected to surge by 11 percent by the fiscal 2031-2032.<\/p>\n

The figures said that the power demand of the domestic consumers may surge from 5352 Million Units (MUs) to over 15,000 MUs\u2014swallowing nearly two-thirds of the territory’s total energy consumption.<\/p>\n

According to the official documents available with the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), authorities have forecasted that in the overall power sector, the domestic power consumption in the year 2021-22 was 5352 MUs that may surge to 15,066 MUs by the year 2031-32.<\/p>\n

It also said that authorities from Jammu and Kashmir targets to reduce its Transmission and Distribution (T&D) losses from 46.9 percent to 16.4 percent by 2031\u201332.<\/p>\n

The documents further projected that the peak power demand across Jammu and Kashmir may jump by 54 percent to 4,633 MWs in 2031-32 from 3,000 MWs in 2021-22.<\/p>\n

As already reported by KNO, Jammu and Kashmir will likely require nearly an additional 450 Megawatts (MWs) of power during the peak hours in the coming three years.<\/p>\n

The official documents in this regard had said that in the ongoing fiscal, Jammu and Kashmir may 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, this news agency earlier reported that 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\u2014(KNO)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Srinagar, Sep 14 (KNO):\u00a0Jammu and Kashmir power sector is facing a massive transformation as the domestic power demand is projected to surge by 11 percent by the fiscal 2031-2032. The figures said that the power demand of the domestic consumers may surge from 5352 Million Units (MUs) to over 15,000 MUs\u2014swallowing nearly two-thirds of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30299,"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-30298","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\/30298","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=30298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30300,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30298\/revisions\/30300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}