Kerala — Verification Report (May 2026)

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

Anchor comparison

#	Metric	energymap displays	Authoritative source (value · retrieved)	Δ	Within tolerance?
1	Peak demand — all-time tile (HEADLINE)	6,195 MW ("2026-04-23", POSOCO)	6,012 MW · KSEBL all-time record, 14 Apr 2026 · onmanorama · 2026-05-30	+3.0%	✅
1b	Peak demand — two-year-peak tile	9,900.3 MW ("2026-05-29")	6,012 MW · KSEBL · 2026-05-30	+64.7%	❌ (systemic tile artifact — IEA-1198)
1c	Today's peak tile	9,900 MW (10:00 IST)	— (live intraday, not independently anchorable)	—	⚠️ co-anomalous with 1b
2	Installed capacity (total)	5,173.8 MW (physical in-state)	CEA Aug-2025 allocation-wise Sub-Total: 7,648.73 MW (allocated share)	−32.4%	⚠️ basis difference (IEA-1199), not an error
3	Capacity by fuel	Renewable 2,646.13 · Hydro 2,008.15 · Gas 359.58 · Diesel 159.96 MW (in-state)	CEA allocation-wise: Coal 2,275.81 · Lignite 314.20 · Gas 359.58 · Diesel 159.96 · Nuclear 362.00 · Hydro 1,964.15 · RES 2,213.03 MW (allocated)	—	⚠️ in-state vs allocated basis (IEA-1199)
4	AT&C losses	9.4% (FY23)	PFC report — not re-fetched this pass	—	⚠️ unverified
5	RPO compliance	17.4% (FY23, modeled)	KSERC — not re-fetched this pass	—	⚠️ unverified
6	Residential tariff	₹3.35/kWh (0–50 kWh, KSERC/KSEBL)	KSERC tariff order — not re-fetched this pass	—	⚠️ unverified
7	Live demand / interchange	Current demand 3,761 MW; imports 3,145 MW (2026-05-30)	SR-LDC PSP / SLDC — not separately fetched	—	⚠️ unverified

Findings

• Headline peak reconciles. The correct headline comparison is the page's all-time peak tile (6,195 MW, POSOCO, "2026-04-23") against Kerala's authoritative all-time record of 6,012 MW, set on 14 April 2026 during evening hours per KSEBL reporting (Onmanorama, 15 Apr 2026; corroborated by ConstructionWorld). The 2026 record was reached in a tight sequence during the April heatwave — 5,797 MW (2 May 2024) → 5,802 MW (25 Mar 2026) → 5,987 MW (13 Apr 2026) → 6,012 MW (14 Apr 2026). The page's 6,195 MW POSOCO figure is +3.0% above the news-reported record (a later 23-Apr regional measurement, plausibly capturing a marginally higher evening peak), and sits inside the ±5% gate. The headline peak therefore PASSES.

• The two-year-peak tile is the systemic artifact — corrected from the first pass. The first-pass draft wrongly elevated the two-year-peak tile (9,900.3 MW) to the headline and declared a FAIL. That tile, and the co-anomalous "today's peak" tile (9,900 MW), read ~9,900 MW — about +64.7% above the true ~6,012 MW record and physically implausible for Kerala (whose entire in-state capacity is ~5,174 MW). This is the systemic two-year-peak tile defect tracked under IEA-1198; here it manifests as an overstatement rather than the understatement documented elsewhere. Per instructions, no new ticket — route this tile reading to IEA-1198 triage. It does not invalidate the headline, which is carried by the separate all-time tile.

• Installed-capacity gap is a basis difference, not a data error. The page shows 5,173.8 MW — the sum of plants physically located in Kerala (Renewable 2,646.13 + Hydro 2,008.15 + Gas 359.58 + Diesel 159.96 = 5,173.82 MW; the Gas and Diesel figures match CEA's state-located thermal exactly, confirming these are in-state stations). CEA's allocation-wise Aug-2025 table credits Kerala a Sub-Total Grand Total of 7,648.73 MW — a different basis that adds Kerala's allocated shares of out-of-state central stations, notably 362.00 MW nuclear (no nuclear is physically sited in Kerala) and 2,275.81 MW allocated coal, neither of which appears in the in-state sum. The −32.4% gap is therefore the physical-vs-allocated basis issue (IEA-1199), NOT a tolerance failure. Verified the row belongs to Kerala: in /tmp/cea_ic.txt the "Kerala" block runs State (Diesel 159.96, Hydro 1,964.15, GT 2,342.01) / Private / Central (Nuclear 362.00, Gas 359.58) / Sub-Total (GT 7,648.73), bracketed by Karnataka above and Tamil Nadu below — correctly aligned.

• AT&C, RPO, tariff and live interchange were read from the page but not independently re-verified against PFC / KSERC / SR-LDC source documents in this pass — honestly marked unverified rather than asserted PASS.

Methodology

Live and tile values read from /states/kerala on 2026-05-30 (WebFetch). Authoritative all-time peak quoted from KSEBL reporting via Onmanorama and ConstructionWorld (retrieved 2026-05-30). CEA capacity from the Aug-2025 allocation-wise report (/tmp/cea_ic.txt, Kerala Sub-Total row; source PDF: cea.nic.in/.../IC_Aug_2025allocation_wise-1.pdf). Installed-capacity is reported on two explicit bases — page = physical-in-state, CEA = allocated share — per the IEA-1199 basis convention. Two-year-peak tile anomaly routed to IEA-1198. No value interpolated; nothing fabricated.

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