Telangana — Verification Report (May 2026)

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

What the page actually shows (peak fields disambiguated)

The Telangana page renders several distinct demand/peak fields. On 2026-05-30 they all read the same value because it is early in the cycle and the live-derived tiles have collapsed onto today's number:

Page field (verbatim label)	Value displayed	Date shown
"Demand now"	282 MW	2026-05-30 06:00 IST (off-peak)
"Peak today"	11,339 MW	2026-05-30 23:00 IST
"Latest daily peak"	11,339 MW	2026-05-30
"Two-year peak"	11,339 MW	2026-05-30
"POSOCO all-time peak"	11,339 MW	2026-05-30

The headline verdict compares the "POSOCO all-time peak" tile against the authoritative all-time record.

Anchor comparison

#	Metric	energymap displays	Authoritative source (value · retrieved)	Δ	Within tolerance?
1	All-time peak demand (headline)	11,339 MW ("POSOCO all-time peak", dated "2026-05-30")	18,228 MW record set Mar 2026 · telanganatoday.com · 2026-05-30	−37.8%	❌ same-basis (IEA-1198)
1b	Two-year peak tile	11,339 MW (dated "2026-05-30")	Prior record 17,162 MW (20 Mar 2025); interim 18,139 MW (03 Mar 2026)	understates	❌ systemic understatement (IEA-1198)
2	Installed capacity (total)	physical in-state basis (page figure not re-rendered this run — see note)	20,970.80 MW — CEA Aug-2025 allocation-wise (allocated basis) — cea.nic.in · 2026-05-30	basis gap	⚠️ basis difference, not a fail (IEA-1199)
3	Capacity by fuel (CEA allocated)	—	CEA Aug-2025 alloc-wise Sub-Total: Coal 12,398.80 · Lignite 61.30 · Gas 438.70 · Nuclear 148.73 · Hydro 2,479.93 · RES 5,443.34 → GrandTotal 20,970.80	reference	✅ CEA row confirmed (Telangana)
4	AT&C losses	12.9% (TGSPDCL, FY23)	PFC Report on Performance of State Power Utilities — pfcindia.com	n/a	⚠️ unverified (not re-fetched this run)
5	RPO compliance	16.2% (FY23, modelled)	TGERC / state RPO order	n/a	⚠️ unverified
6	Residential tariff	₹1.95/kWh (0–50), ₹3.10/kWh (51–100)	TGERC retail tariff order	n/a	⚠️ unverified
7	Current / RT demand	"Demand now" 282 MW (06:00 IST, off-peak)	SR-LDC PSP / TS-SLDC	n/a	⚠️ unverified (real-time snapshot)

Findings

• All-time peak (anchor #1) — FAIL, same-basis, maps to systemic IEA-1198. The "POSOCO all-time peak" tile reads 11,339 MW (just today's peak), while Telangana's verified all-time record is 18,228 MW, set in mid-March 2026 — exceeding the prior record of 17,162 MW (20 Mar 2025), with an interim 18,139 MW recorded 03 Mar 2026. The tile understates the record by −37.8%, far beyond ±5%. Because both the page tile and the authoritative figure are on the same "all-time peak MW" basis, this is a genuine same-basis failure. It is the known systemic understatement of the peak/two-year tiles for high-demand states, tracked under IEA-1198 — no new fix-ticket is proposed. (Note: the large delta here is NEGATIVE — displayed ≪ authoritative — i.e. a real understatement, not the positive-misread artifact pattern.)

• Installed capacity (anchor #2) — basis difference, NOT a tolerance failure (IEA-1199). The page reports capacity physically located in Telangana (sum of in-state plants). CEA's allocation-wise table reports Telangana's allocated share, a different basis, totalling 20,970.80 MW (CEA Aug-2025, Telangana Sub-Total GrandTotal — row confirmed against the layout: State 10,363.65 + Private 7,120.27 + Central 3,486.88 = 20,970.80). Any gap between the page (physical) and CEA (allocated) is the physical-vs-allocated basis issue (IEA-1199) and is explained, not a data error. The first-pass draft incorrectly scored this as a same-basis −5.92% tolerance fail; corrected here.

  • Capacity note: the page's installed-capacity section did not render in this run's fetch (live SPA / "loading" tiles), so the exact displayed in-state total is unverified this run rather than asserted. The CEA allocated basis (20,970.80 MW) and its fuel split are independently confirmed from the CEA PDF.

• CEA fuel split (anchor #3) — confirmed. Telangana Sub-Total row: Coal 12,398.80 · Lignite 61.30 · Gas 438.70 · Nuclear 148.73 · Hydro 2,479.93 · RES 5,443.34 MW. Nuclear and gas are central-station allocations that an in-state physical view would not carry — another facet of the IEA-1199 basis distinction.

• Anchors #4–#7 not independently re-verified this run (PFC AT&C, RPO, tariff, real-time interchange). Marked unverified rather than asserted. The 282 MW "Demand now" is an off-peak 06:00 IST snapshot and is not comparable to any peak figure.

Methodology

Live values read from the Telangana page on 2026-05-30 (each peak field captured by its verbatim label to avoid conflating "demand now", "peak today", "two-year peak" and "all-time peak"). Authoritative all-time record cross-checked against Telangana Today and corroborating press (18,228 MW; interim 18,139 MW). CEA capacity from the Aug-2025 allocation-wise PDF; the Telangana Sub-Total GrandTotal (20,970.80 MW) was confirmed to belong to the Telangana block (State + Private + Central sub-rows sum to the same total). Capacity reported on two bases — page (physical in-state) vs CEA (allocated) — per IEA-1199. No value interpolated; unconfirmed anchors left explicitly "unverified".

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Part of the F40 per-state cross-verification programme (IEA-1070). Peak tile understatement: IEA-1198. Physical-vs-allocated capacity basis: IEA-1199.