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Anticipating a spike successful summertime energy demand, the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) has sought proviso proposals from powerfulness generators for gathering the further request during the play from February to May 2026.
The powerfulness inferior is eyeing a regular proviso of 200 MW each successful February, March, April and from May 1 to May 15. According to a petition for connection (RfP) floated by the KSEB connected Tuesday, these short-term supplies are required for gathering the accrued request during the highest hours from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
All powerfulness generators, including State utilities, captive powerfulness generators, organisation licencees and State-run energy boards possessing a valid commercialized licence, are qualified to enactment successful the bidding process which volition instrumentality spot done the Centre’s Discovery of Efficient Electricity Price (DEEP) portal.
The non-financial method bids and archetypal nationalist offerings are to beryllium submitted by January 9.
In August, the Kerala State Electricity Regulatory Commission had noted the KSEB’s repeated nonaccomplishment successful furnishing details of the fiscal committedness arising from short-term powerfulness procurements and however they impact the KSEB’s finances.
During the 2025 summer, Electricity Minister K. Krishnankutty had stressed the request to marque the astir of the daytime simplification successful vigor charges for prime categories of consumers to support evening depletion down.
The combined retention successful the KSEB’s hydel reservoirs stood astatine 74% (or equivalent to 3051.8 cardinal units (mu)on Tuesday. This is the highest for the time since 2021. Storage successful the Idukki reservoir stands astatine 73%.
