Arunachal Pradesh — Verification Report (May 2026)

Page verified: /states/arunachal-pradesh · Retrieved: "2026-05-30". Tolerance: ±5% / ±2pp.

Peak-demand fields (disambiguated)

The page surfaces four distinct demand figures; the first three are equal on this read, which is the tell-tale of the systemic tile bug.

Field on page	Displayed value	Date shown
Current demand (live)	408 MW	2026-05-30
Today's peak	408 MW (at 00:00 IST)	2026-05-30
Two-year peak (tile)	408 MW	"2026-05-30"
All-time / record peak (POSOCO)	228 MW	"2025-09-05"

The current demand, today's peak and two-year-peak tiles are all 408 MW at 00:00 IST — the two-year tile is mis-wired to the live snapshot rather than the rolling 24-month maximum (systemic IEA-1198). The only credible recorded peak on the page is the 228 MW all-time tile, used for the headline verdict below.

Anchor comparison

#	Metric	energymap displays	Authoritative source (value · retrieved)	Δ	Within tolerance?
1	Peak demand (headline = all-time tile)	228 MW ("2025-09-05", POSOCO)	218 MW FY2024-25 recorded peak · CEA RA Report, Table 4 · "2026-05-30"	+4.6%	✅
1b	Two-year-peak tile (systemic)	408 MW ("2026-05-30")	218 MW recorded peak (same CEA source)	+87.2%	❌ — IEA-1198 tile mis-wire, not a data error
2	Installed capacity (total)	2,021.3 MW (physical in-state)	783.88 MW (CEA allocation-wise Sub-Total, GrandTotal col) · CEA Aug-2025 · cea.nic.in · "2026-05-30"	+157.6%	⚠️ basis difference (IEA-1199), not a tolerance failure
3	Capacity by fuel	Hydro 1,865.0 MW; RES 156.33 MW (physical in-state; 3 plants)	CEA Aug-2025 allocation-wise: Coal 37.05, Gas 46.82, Hydro 544.55, RES 155.46 (RE-Total 700.01)	—	⚠️ basis difference (IEA-1199)
4	AT&C losses	Not displayed ("not published")	PFC / APSERC — not retrieved this pass	—	⚠️ unverified
5	RPO compliance	Not displayed ("no trajectory/compliance data")	APSERC — not retrieved	—	⚠️ unverified
6	Residential tariff	₹4.40/kWh	APSERC tariff order — not independently retrieved this pass	—	⚠️ unverified
7	Interchange / RT demand	Imports 120 MW (NER, projected); exports 0 MW	NER-LDC PSP / SLDC — not retrieved	—	⚠️ unverified

Findings

• Headline peak reconciles (PASS): the page's all-time/POSOCO tile of 228 MW ("2025-09-05") sits +4.6% above the CEA Resource Adequacy report's FY2024-25 recorded peak of 218 MW (Table 4: Peak Demand 218 MW, Peak Met 191 MW). A September-2025 POSOCO reading post-dating FY2024-25 being marginally higher is consistent with the 3.34% peak CAGR the CEA report cites. Within the ±5% gate.
• The 408 MW two-year-peak tile is the systemic mis-wire, NOT a real peak: it is identical to the live demand and today's-peak values (all 408 MW at 00:00 IST), so it is showing the live snapshot rather than the 24-month maximum. It over-states the ~218–228 MW true peak by ~+87%. This is the known IEA-1198 two-year-peak tile bug (here it over-states because it is pinned to a live value). Implausibility check: AR's total contracted capacity is only 414 MW (CEA RA, March 2025), so a 408 MW peak is not credible. No new ticket per instructions.
• Installed-capacity gap is a basis difference, not an error (IEA-1199): the page reports 2,021.3 MW physically located in-state (infra-counts: one 1,865.0 MW hydro plant + 156.33 MW RES across 2 plants, 3 plants total). CEA's allocation-wise table credits Arunachal Pradesh only its drawing allocation of 783.88 MW (Sub-Total row, GrandTotal column — verified the row belongs to AR: State 116.61 + Private 38.85 + Central 628.42 = 783.88; Coal 37.05, Gas 46.82, Hydro 544.55, RES 155.46, RE-Total 700.01). Arunachal Pradesh is hydro-rich: large central-sector hydro physically sited in-state is allocated out to other NER/national beneficiaries, so physical (2,021 MW) >> allocated (784 MW). This is the physical-vs-allocated basis divergence, explicitly not a tolerance failure.
• Unverifiable anchors honestly marked: AT&C losses and RPO compliance are not published on the page; the residential tariff (₹4.40/kWh) and NER interchange (120 MW import, projected) are displayed but were not cross-checked against a retrieved APSERC / NER-LDC source this pass — left unverified rather than asserted.

Methodology

Live values read from the Arunachal Pradesh page and /infra-counts API on "2026-05-30"; authoritative values quoted with source URL + retrieval date. CEA installed capacity from the Aug-2025 allocation-wise report (cached /tmp/cea_ic.txt; AR Sub-Total row cross-footed to confirm correct state-row alignment). Recorded peak from the CEA Resource Adequacy Plan, Table 4 (downloaded with curl -sk due to CEA's broken TLS chain; converted with pdftotext -layout). No value interpolated; unverifiable anchors marked unverified.

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Part of the F40 per-state cross-verification programme (IEA-1070).