{"id":4284,"date":"2025-11-18T17:52:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=4284"},"modified":"2025-11-18T17:52:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:52:30","slug":"50-surge-in-power-demand-likely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/18\/50-surge-in-power-demand-likely\/","title":{"rendered":"50% surge in power demand likely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar, Nov 18:<\/strong>\u00a0While the power sector continues to function with \u2018decades old infrastructure\u2019, Jammu and Kashmir is likely to witness growth in power demand by nearly 50 percent in a decade.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official documents, authorities have projected that Jammu and Kashmir will likely have an extra power demand by 49.42 percent by the year 2034-35.<\/p>\n<p>The official further clarified that the peak demand will be more than the average growth saying that the region may likely witness an increase in power demand by 6 percent each year from 2025-26 to 2034-2035.<\/p>\n<p>Stating the year wise growth rate in power demand, authorities have said that in the year Jammu and Kashmir will likely have a five percent extra demand in the year 2025-26 followed by four percent in the year 2026-27, four percent in 2027-28, three percent in 2028-29.<\/p>\n<p>It also said that in the year 2029-30, the region may experience growth rate in power demand by five percent followed by four percent in 2030-31, four percent in 2031-32, three percent in 2032-33, five percent in 2033-34 and four percent in the year 2034-35 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeak and Energy Demand for the UT of J&amp;K and Ladakh has been taken as per the projections provided by the UT department. The Demand estimation by J&amp;K was higher than projected by 20th Electric Power Survey of India (EPS). Therefore, the studies have been carried out using projections given by the J&amp;K UT department,\u201d it reads.<\/p>\n<p>The documents further reveal that the future demand profile for the year 2034-35 has been projected using the demand profile of J&amp;K for the year 2022-23 as the base profile. \u201cThe actual solar generation profiles and CUFs have been taken as provided by J&amp;K.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It also said that according to the data provided by J&amp;K, an additional 392 MW of Coal (Shakti Scheme), 620 MW of solar and 1206 MW of hydro is planned till 2030.<strong>\u2014(KNO)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Nov 18:\u00a0While the power sector continues to function with \u2018decades old infrastructure\u2019, Jammu and Kashmir is likely to witness growth in power demand by nearly 50 percent in a decade. According to the official documents, authorities have projected that Jammu and Kashmir will likely have an extra power demand by 49.42 percent by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4285,"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-4284","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\/4284","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=4284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4286,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284\/revisions\/4286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}