Chandigarh — Verification Report (May 2026)

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

Anchor comparison

#	Metric	energymap displays	Authoritative source (value · retrieved)	Δ	Within tolerance?
1	Peak demand — all-time (HEADLINE)	460 MW ("2025-06-12")	465 MW ("2025-06-12") · tribuneindia.com · 2026-05-30	−1.08%	✅
1b	Peak demand — two-year-peak tile	217 MW ("2026-05-30")	465 MW record ("2025-06-12") · tribuneindia.com · 2026-05-30	−53.3%	❌ (systemic — IEA-1198)
1c	Current demand / today's peak	217 MW (00:00 IST, 2026-05-30)	live tile — not an anchor	—	— (live)
2	Installed capacity	78.8 MW (physical in-state)	252.82 MW (CEA allocated, Aug-2025) · cea.nic.in · 2026-05-30	basis diff	⚠️ basis (IEA-1199)
3	Capacity by fuel	Solar/RES 100% (78.85 MW); all else 0%	Physical-basis consistent; CEA-allocated: Coal 44.83 · Gas 15.03 · Nuclear 10.41 · Hydro 103.71 · RES 78.85 MW	basis diff	⚠️ basis (IEA-1199)
4	AT&C losses	Not published	No authoritative UT-level figure retrieved	—	⚠️ unverified
5	RPO compliance	No published targets	Not retrieved	—	⚠️ unverified
6	Residential tariff	₹2.75/kWh (JERC)	Not independently cross-checked this pass	—	⚠️ unverified
7	Interchange / RT demand	Imports ↓320 MW (projected), Exports 0 MW, 50.03 Hz	NR-LDC PSP / SLDC — not retrieved this pass	—	⚠️ unverified

Findings

• Headline peak reconciles (✅). The page's all-time peak tile reads 460 MW dated "2025-06-12", versus the authoritative CPDL/Tribune record of 465 MW on 2025-06-12. Δ = −1.08%, well within ±5%. The date matches exactly. The first-pass draft incorrectly headlined the two-year-peak tile (217 MW) against the record and reported a −53% FAIL — that was an artifact of comparing the wrong field. Corrected here.
• Two-year-peak tile understates (−53.3%, ❌ — systemic). The two-year-peak tile reads 217 MW, which equals the retrieval-day current/today's-peak value, not a genuine 24-month maximum. The true recent maximum is the ~465 MW June-2025 record. This is the known systemic two-year-peak understatement tracked under IEA-1198 — no new fix-ticket proposed.
• Installed capacity is a BASIS difference, not an error (⚠️ IEA-1199). The page shows 78.8 MW (physical in-state: one renewable plant of 78.85 MW per the infra-counts API). CEA's allocation-wise table gives Chandigarh an allocated GrandTotal of 252.82 MW (Sub-Total row, Northern Region), which adds Chandigarh's paper shares of central-sector stations — Coal 44.83, Gas 15.03, Nuclear 10.41, Hydro 103.71 — on top of the 78.85 MW in-state RES. As an import-dependent UT, Chandigarh has almost no physical generation of its own; the gap (physical << allocated) is the expected physical-vs-allocated basis issue (IEA-1199), NOT a tolerance failure. Both figures are correct on their own basis.
• Fuel mix is basis-consistent (⚠️ IEA-1199). The page shows ~100% solar/RES because Chandigarh's single physical plant is rooftop/RES solar; the central coal/gas/nuclear/hydro in the CEA row are allocated shares of out-of-UT stations, not in-Chandigarh generation. Same basis distinction as #2.
• AT&C losses, RPO, tariff, and interchange could not be authoritatively cross-checked this pass and are honestly marked unverified — no values fabricated.

First-pass corrections applied

• Headline peak now compares the all-time tile (460 MW) vs the authoritative record (465 MW) → −1.08% ✅ (was a fabricated −53% FAIL against the wrong tile).
• Installed-capacity gap reclassified from "−68.8% data error" to a physical-vs-allocated basis difference (IEA-1199) — page 78.8 MW (physical) vs CEA 252.82 MW (allocated), both correct.
• CEA fuel allocation corrected: Nuclear 10.41 MW, Hydro 103.71 MW (the draft had these two swapped).
• Verdict changed FAIL → PARTIAL.

Methodology

Live values read from the Chandigarh page + /infra-counts API on 2026-05-30; authoritative values quoted with source + retrieval date. CEA capacity from the Aug-2025 allocation-wise PDF — Chandigarh Sub-Total row, GrandTotal column (252.82 MW), with the per-fuel split read column-by-column (Coal/Gas/Nuclear/Hydro/RES). All-time peak cross-checked against CPDL figures reported by The Tribune. No value interpolated; unverifiable anchors left explicitly unverified.

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