Srinagar, Oct 14: Jammu and Kashmir has witnessed a massive gap of Rs over 400 crore between power bills and collections in the financial Year 2025-2026, reveals the Kashmir Power Distribution Corporation Limited’s (KPDCL) Annual Energy Audit for FY 2025-26.
According to the details accessed by Rising Kashmir, the residential consumers accounted for 71.5 per cent of the total electricity consumption in Jammu and Kashmir during the financial year 2025-26, emerging as the largest consumer category in terms of both connections and energy usage.
The data reveals that Jammu and Kashmir had 12,94,733 electricity connections across different categories, with total energy consumption recorded at 7,024.58 million units (MU).
Of the total connections, 10,66,717, or 82.39 per cent, belonged to the residential category. These consumers accounted for 5,025.91 MU of electricity consumption, representing 71.5 per cent of the total energy used during the year.
The connected load of residential consumers stood at 2,297.67 megawatts (MW), accounting for 64.9 per cent of the overall connected load of 3,538.31 MW.
The data showed that commercial and industrial consumers under the low-tension (LT) category constituted the second-largest group, with 2,11,882 connections, representing 16.36 per cent of the total. Their electricity consumption stood at 759.40 MU, or 10.8 per cent of the total, against a connected load of 650.78 MW.
Consumers classified under the high-tension (HT) commercial and industrial category had 550 connections, accounting for 460.19 MU of electricity consumption, or 6.6 per cent of the total. Their connected load stood at 215.47 MW.
The agricultural sector had 4,338 connections, accounting for 0.34 per cent of the total. The category consumed 108.75 MU of electricity during the year, representing 1.5 per cent of the overall consumption, with a connected load of 70.07 MW.
The ‘Others’ category, comprising 11,246 connections, accounted for 670.34 MU of electricity consumption, or 9.5 per cent of the total. Its connected load stood at 304.32 MW.
The billing and collection figures showed that electricity consumers were billed a total of Rs 2,983.03 crore during FY 2025-26, against which Rs 2,565.93 crore was collected.
Residential consumers were billed Rs 1,663.53 crore, with collections amounting to Rs 1,455.90 crore.
The commercial and industrial LT category recorded bills worth Rs 450.49 crore and collections of Rs 374.02 crore, while the HT category was billed Rs 246.95 crore, against collections of Rs 239.97 crore.
Agricultural consumers were billed Rs 67.71 crore, with collections of Rs 19.76 crore, while the ‘Others’ category recorded billing of Rs 554.35 crore and collections of Rs 476.29 crore.
Overall, the difference between the total billed amount and collections stood at Rs 417.10 crore during the financial year.
