Jammu & Kashmir — Verification Report (May 2026)

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

Note: the state page is client-rendered and returned HTTP 500 to the fetcher; the public API (api.energymap.in/api/states/jammu-and-kashmir) is therefore the source of the "displayed" values. J&K is flagged in the API as release_tier: tier-3, build_status: live-contract-only, official_source_status: backlog, completion_class: empty — a backlog state with no demand/peak ingestion (demand_mw: null, peak_mw: null).

Anchor comparison

#	Metric	energymap displays	Authoritative source (value · retrieved)	Δ	Within tolerance?
1	Peak demand (all-time)	null — no peak tile rendered (API peak_mw: null; demand_mw: null; no current / today / two-year / all-time peak fields populated)	3,405 MW all-time (Mar 2020, CEA) · CEIC/CEA · 2026-05-30	n/a — nothing displayed to compare	❌ not ingested
2	Peak demand (recent context)	null	~3,200 MW winter 2024-25; 2,906 MW summer-2025 peak met; SLDC projects ~6% CAGR to 2035-36 · Kashmir Observer · 2026-05-30	n/a	❌ not ingested
3	Installed capacity — physical in-state	3,638.1 MW (4 plants; API installed_capacity_mw: 3638.100)	CEA-allocated basis (row 4) — DIFFERENT basis	+4.89% vs CEA-allocated (cross-basis)	✅ basis-explained (IEA-1199)
4	Installed capacity — CEA-allocated	(page does not show allocated basis)	3,468.44 MW — CEA Aug-2025 allocation-wise, "Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh" Sub-Total Grand Total — cea.nic.in · 2026-05-30	—	✅ reference basis
5	Capacity by fuel	empty (power_plant_count: 4, no fuel breakdown surfaced)	CEA Aug-2025 allocation-wise (J&K + Ladakh): Thermal 706.22 / Nuclear 95.13 / Hydro 2,345.88 / RES 321.21 MW	—	⚠️ not displayed
6	AT&C losses	not retrievable	PFC	—	⚠️ unverified
7	RPO compliance	not retrievable	JKSERC	—	⚠️ unverified
8	Residential tariff	not retrievable (no public endpoint resolves)	JKSERC tariff order	—	⚠️ unverified
9	Interchange / RT demand	null (no demand points ingested)	NR-LDC PSP / J&K SLDC	—	⚠️ unverified

Findings

• Peak demand is not ingested — there is no tile value at all, so there is no misread. The API returns demand_mw: null and peak_mw: null, with no current-demand, today's-peak, two-year-peak, or all-time-peak field populated. J&K is a tier-3 / completion_class: empty backlog state with zero ingested demand points. The headline peak verdict therefore compares nothing displayed against the authoritative all-time record of 3,405 MW (Mar 2020, CEA) — a data-completeness gap, not a tolerance failure and not a positive-delta misread. Recent context: winter 2024-25 peaks reached ~3,200 MW, summer-2025 peak met was 2,906 MW, and SLDC projects ~6% CAGR demand growth through 2035-36.
• The two-year-peak understatement bug (IEA-1198) does not manifest here — but is pre-empted by the same root cause. That systemic bug shows a low non-null two-year-peak number; here the tile is empty because no demand has been ingested. When J&K is eventually onboarded, the IEA-1198 understatement pattern would apply to its two-year-peak tile and should be watched; no new ticket is warranted.
• Installed capacity reconciles across two different bases — this is the physical-vs-allocated basis issue (IEA-1199), not a data error. The page shows 3,638.1 MW = capacity physically located in J&K (sum of 4 in-state plants). CEA's allocation-wise table reports the state's allocated share as 3,468.44 MW — a different basis. The two are within +4.89% (inside ±5% even cross-basis), so the magnitude reconciles. Two caveats on the CEA figure: (a) it is the allocated basis, not physical; and (b) CEA groups "Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh" as a single entity in the allocation-wise report, so the 3,468.44 MW Sub-Total Grand Total (Thermal 706.22 / Nuclear 95.13 / Hydro 2,345.88 / RES 321.21) spans both UTs. No tolerance failure — basis difference explained.
• Soft metrics (AT&C, RPO, tariff, fuel-mix breakdown) could not be verified. The page is client-rendered (HTTP 500 to fetcher) and the backlog/empty completion class means no AT&C, RPO, tariff, or fuel-split data is surfaced via the API. These anchors are honestly marked unverified — no value was inferred or fabricated.

Methodology

Live values read from the J&K public API (api.energymap.in/api/states/jammu-and-kashmir) on 2026-05-30 (the page itself is client-rendered and returned HTTP 500, so the API is the displayed-value source). Authoritative all-time peak (3,405 MW, Mar 2020) attributed to CEA via the CEIC J&K peak-demand series; recent-peak context from Kashmir Observer / Greater Kashmir with retrieval date 2026-05-30. CEA installed capacity from the Aug-2025 allocation-wise report (cached /tmp/cea_ic.txt), where the matched row is the "Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh" Sub-Total with Grand Total 3,468.44 MW. Capacity is reported on both bases — page (physical in-state) and CEA (allocated) — per the basis convention in IEA-1199. No value interpolated; every unreachable anchor marked unverified.

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