{"id":93911,"date":"2026-02-06T00:04:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/?p=93911"},"modified":"2026-02-06T00:05:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:35:33","slug":"power-demand-in-jk-witnessing-steady-rise-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/power-demand-in-jk-witnessing-steady-rise-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Power demand in J&#038;K witnessing steady rise: Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In 2026, J&amp;K recorded electricity requirement of 14,874 MU, of which 14,862 MU was supplied<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Srinagar, Feb 05 (KNO): Electricity demand in Jammu and Kashmir has seen a steady rise over the past three years, while power supply has largely remained in sync with demand, the Government of India informed the Lok Sabha on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a written reply to an unstarred question (No. 1119), the Union Power Ministry, according to the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), said that J&amp;K\u2019s electricity requirement stood at 19,639 million units (MU) in 2022\u201323, of which 19,322 MU was supplied.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2023\u201324, the requirement increased to 20,040 MU, with 19,763 MU supplied. During 2024\u201325, the demand further rose to 20,374 MU, while supply remained close at 20,283 MU.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the current financial year 2025\u201326 (up to December 2025), J&amp;K recorded an electricity requirement of 14,874 MU, against which 14,862 MU was supplied, indicating a marginal gap.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry said that minor gaps between demand and supply are generally due to transmission and distribution constraints and have not impacted economic or industrial growth in the Union Territory\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2026, J&amp;K recorded electricity requirement of 14,874 MU, of which 14,862 MU was supplied Srinagar, Feb 05 (KNO): Electricity demand in Jammu and Kashmir has seen a steady rise over the past three years, while power supply has largely remained in sync with demand, the Government of India informed the Lok Sabha on Thursday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93912,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93911\/revisions\/93912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}