Eight of India’s ten highest power-consuming states noticed a year-on-year drop in electrical energy use within the first quarter of monetary yr 2025-26 (FY26), on account of unseasonal rain in Might and a excessive base from final yr. Total, energy consumption throughout the nation fell 1.4 per cent year-on-year to 451.8 billion items (BU) between April and June, based on information from the Central Electrical energy Authority (CEA).
Maharashtra, India’s greatest energy guzzler, noticed a marginal dip in electrical energy use to 53 BU in Q1 FY26, from 53.4 BU a yr in the past. Uttar Pradesh logged a sharper 5.6 per cent fall to 46.1 BU. Solely Punjab and Gujarat bucked the development, inching up by 2.2 per cent and 0.4 per cent to twenty.9 BU and 41.9 BU, respectively.
Consumption fell 3 per cent in Tamil Nadu, 2.9 per cent in Karnataka, 2.4 per cent in Rajasthan, 1.4 per cent in West Bengal, 1 per cent in Madhya Pradesh, and 0.2 per cent in Andhra Pradesh. These ten states account for 70 per cent of India’s electrical energy consumption.
Barring Maharashtra (flat), Andhra Pradesh (-2 per cent), and Karnataka (1 per cent), most of those states had recorded robust development in Q1 FY25. Uttar Pradesh had grown 24 per cent, Rajasthan 21 per cent, and Madhya Pradesh 14 per cent, whereas nationwide energy consumption had risen 11 per cent. Notably, energy use in Punjab and Gujarat registered optimistic development this yr regardless of having expanded by 25 per cent and 15 per cent, respectively, in Q1 FY25.
Along with final yr’s excessive base, unseasonal rain additionally weighed on energy demand between April and June. Whereas consumption rose 2.6 per cent y-o-y in April, it fell 4.7 per cent in Might amid sudden showers in north India, and declined 1.8 per cent in June as a consequence of extra rainfall. The southwest monsoon had coated the complete nation by June 29 this yr, in opposition to the traditional date of July 8.
“Rainfall within the northwest area, which incorporates north India as per the classification of India Meteorological Division (IMD), was 37% above regular, in sharp distinction to June 2024, which noticed heatwaves and rainfall 33% beneath regular. Within the southern area, nevertheless, energy demand elevated 5.3% on-year, consistent with a rainfall deficit of 5% within the southern peninsula this June,” based on a Crisil Intelligence report.
Nonetheless, regardless of the dip in Q1 FY26, India’s energy consumption has grown at a compound annual development fee (CAGR) of seven per cent since Q1 FY22. Among the many prime ten states, Uttar Pradesh led with 9.2 per cent, adopted by West Bengal (8.8 per cent), Rajasthan (8.3 per cent), Gujarat (8.2 per cent), and Punjab (8.1 per cent). On the different finish, Andhra Pradesh (3.6 per cent), Tamil Nadu (4.9 per cent), and Maharashtra (5 per cent) noticed the slowest development.
Energy use in prime 5 states
|
State |
Q1 FY26 |
Q1 FY25 |
Progress (%) |
CAGR since Q1 FY22 (%) |
|
Maharashtra |
53 |
53.4 |
-0.7 |
5 |
|
Uttar Pradesh |
46.1 |
48.8 |
-5.6 |
9.2 |
|
Gujarat |
42.1 |
41.9 |
0.4 |
8.2 |
|
Tamil Nadu |
34.6 |
35.7 |
-3 |
4.9 |
|
Rajasthan |
28 |
28.7 |
-2.4 |
8.3 |
|
All India |
445.6 |
451.8 |
-1.4 |
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Figures in billion items (BU)/ Supply: Central Electrical energy Authority (CEA)
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