{"id":872,"date":"2025-10-09T19:48:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=872"},"modified":"2025-10-09T19:48:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:48:38","slug":"jk-ladakh-likely-to-see-3470-mws-peak-power-demand-in-oct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/jk-ladakh-likely-to-see-3470-mws-peak-power-demand-in-oct\/","title":{"rendered":"J&#038;K, Ladakh likely to see 3470 MWs peak power demand in Oct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MoP predicts 980 MWs power shortfall<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Riyaz Bhat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Srinagar, Oct 09: With the onset of cold weather, the Ministry of Power (MoP) has predicted a peak power requirement of 3470 Megawatts (MWs) for Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh for the ongoing month.<\/p>\n<p>However, contrary to it the ministry has anticipated that there may be a peak power availability of only 2490 MWs for the month of October.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official figures available with the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the MoP has predicted that Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh may have a shortfall of 980 MWs against the total peak requirement.<\/p>\n<p>Stating the anticipated power supply position in the northern region for October 2025, MoP has said that the representatives of Haryana, SLDC, Punjab SLDC and J&amp;K SLDC informed that the shortfall in J&amp;K would be met through Real time exchanges.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Kashmir Power Distribution Corporation Limited (KPDCL) has said that the Discom is trying hard to improve and supply uninterrupted power supply this winter.<\/p>\n<p>Managing Director (MD) Kashmir Power Distribution Corporation Limited (KPDCL), Mahmood Ahmad Shah had said, \u201cThis year so far, KPDCL have provided improved power supply to our consumers. Besides a lot of improvement has been made in the discom in comparison to the previous year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pertinently, KNO reported that the power demand in Kashmir earlier this week had increased by nearly 200 Megawatts amid dip in mercury,<\/p>\n<p>An official had said that KPDCL has witnessed an additional demand of nearly 200 MW of power in the past two days. (KNO)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MoP predicts 980 MWs power shortfall Riyaz Bhat Srinagar, Oct 09: With the onset of cold weather, the Ministry of Power (MoP) has predicted a peak power requirement of 3470 Megawatts (MWs) for Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh for the ongoing month. However, contrary to it the ministry has anticipated that there may be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873,"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-872","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\/872","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=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":874,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}