Electricity production & consumption
Kerala publishes no live per-station generation feed. Rather than leave the page empty, every figure below carries a tag: Measured from today’s official dam report, Reference from a published register, Estimate derived from historical published data with the derivation stated, or Not published where nothing credible exists. Nothing is presented as a measurement unless it is one.
Last dam report ingested 14 h ago · 02 Nov 2026, 08:37 IST · refresh cadence: hourly (reports), 15 minutes (weather)
KSEBL own installed capacity
Reference2,482.42 MW
KSEBL annual administration report / utility review · FY 2023-24
Total generating capacity inside Kerala
Reference≈ 3,819 MW
KSEBL generation-mix summary · FY 2023-24
Peak demand met
Reference5,301 MW
KSEBL / SLDC reporting · FY 2023-24
Deficit covered by central allocation and market purchase
Reference≈ 1,480 MW at peak
Derived: peak demand minus in-state capacity · FY 2023-24
Carbon avoided by Kerala’s in-state generation
Estimate≈ 5.46 million t CO₂/yr
7,628 MU generated in 2023-24 (almost all hydel) × CEA grid factor 0.716 kg CO₂/kWh — the emissions that importing the same power from India's coal-heavy grid would have caused.
Gross reservoir methane is not subtracted here; see each dam’s carbon panel. How this is calculated
Installed capacity by source
Reference4098 MW total- Large hydro1904 MW
KSEBL hydro stations (Idukki, Sabarigiri, Lower Periyar and the rest)
- Solar1314 MW
Utility-scale plus rooftop / Soura prosumer capacity in the state
- Thermal (naphtha / diesel / LSHS)537 MW
Kayamkulam RGCCPP, BSES Kochi, KSEBL diesel sets — mostly idle, run only on grid stress
- Small hydro (<25 MW)276.52 MW
KSEBL and private small hydel schemes
- Wind63.50 MW
Kanjikode, Ramakkalmedu and Agali clusters
- Biomass / biopower2.50 MW
Bagasse and biomass units
- Nuclear0 MW
No nuclear station in Kerala. Nuclear reaches the state only as a central-sector allocation (Kudankulam) over the grid
- Tidal / wave0 MW
No commercial tidal or wave plant. Vizhinjam hosts a NIOT wave-energy research installation only
Source: KSEBL generation-mix reporting for FY 2023-24, as summarised in Power Line / Renewable Watch utility reviews and the KSEBL annual administration report.
In-state annual generation
Reference- 2019-205,723 MU
- 2020-217,233 MU
- 2021-229,742 MU
- 2022-238,538 MU
- 2023-247,628 MU
Source: KSEBL power system statistics and annual administration reports; the 2020-21 and 2023-24 rows are the mid-points of the ranges quoted in KSEBL utility reviews and are marked as such. Generation swings with the monsoon — a weak monsoon cuts hydel output and pushes Kerala onto central-grid purchase.
Live generation right now (MW)
No station-level SCADA or real-time generation API is published by KSEBL. The daily report we ingest contains water, not megawatts.
To show this we would need: a station-level SCADA or daily generation API, or a structured KSEB daily generation bulletin.
Real-time statewide demand
Kerala's live load appears on national grid operator dashboards as images and PDFs, with no public per-state API that permits redistribution.
To show this we would need: an official state load API or a licensed SLDC feed.
District-level metered sales
KSEBL reports sales by electrical circle and consumer category, not by revenue district, so no official district table exists.
To show this we would need: the KSEBL district or circle-wise sales table in machine-readable form.
Hydel station register
1690 MW installed · 0 releasing · 5,301 MU/yr design output| Station / dam | District | Installed | Typical annual output | Storage today | Outflow today | Source of measured values |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moolamattom (Idukki HEP)Idukki dam | Idukki | 780 MW | ≈ 2,398 MUest | 62.7% | — | KSEB report · 01 Nov 2026, 11:00 IST |
| Sabarigiri (Moozhiyar)Kakki (Anathode) dam | Pathanamthitta | 340 MW | ≈ 1,338 MUest | 68.3% | — | KSEB report · 01 Nov 2026, 11:00 IST |
| Kuttiady HEPKuttiady (Kakkayam, KSEB) dam | Kozhikode | 225 MW | ≈ 268 MUest | 58.8% | — | KSEB report · 01 Nov 2026, 11:00 IST |
| Lower Periyar HEP (Pamblassery)Lower Periyar (Pambla) dam | Idukki | 180 MW | ≈ 493 MUest | 77.7% | — | KSEB report · 01 Nov 2026, 11:00 IST |
| Idamalayar HEPIdamalayar dam | Ernakulam | 75 MW | ≈ 380 MUest | 71.9% | — | KSEB report · 01 Nov 2026, 11:00 IST |
| Sholayar HEPSholayar dam | Thrissur | 54 MW | ≈ 233 MUest | 87.6% | — | KSEB report · 01 Nov 2026, 11:00 IST |
| Poringalkuthu HEPPoringalkuthu dam | Thrissur | 36 MW | ≈ 191 MUest | 39.9% | — | KSEB report · 01 Nov 2026, 11:00 IST |
“Typical annual output” is an estimate, not a measurement: it is the station’s published firm annual generation capability, i.e. the design output in an average water year. Actual output in any given year is higher or lower with the monsoon and machine availability. Source: KSEB 'Power Projects in Kerala' register — installed capacity and firm annual generation capability per station.
Other major generation projects
Reference| Project | Type | District | Capacity | Status & note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kasaragod Solar Park (Ambalathara) | Solar | Kasaragod | 50 MW | Operating since 2017 — Kerala's first utility-scale solar park, developed under the national solar park scheme. |
| Kayamkulam floating solar (NTPC Rajiv Gandhi CCPP reservoir) | Solar | Alappuzha | 92 MW | Operating since 2022 — One of India's largest floating solar plants, on the cooling reservoir of the naphtha station. |
| Soura rooftop programme | Solar | Statewide | ≈ 1,000 MW cumulative rooftop | Rolling — Consumer-owned rooftop capacity; the single largest contributor to Kerala's solar growth. |
| Banasura Sagar floating solar | Solar | Wayanad | 0.5 MW | Operating since 2017 — Pilot floating array on a JalaNet-tracked reservoir. |
| Kanjikode wind farm (KSEBL) | Wind | Palakkad | 2.03 MW | Operating — KSEBL's own wind installation in the Palakkad gap, the state's only good wind corridor. |
| Ramakkalmedu & Agali private wind clusters | Wind | Idukki / Palakkad | ≈ 60 MW combined | Operating — IPP wind capacity; output is seasonal and peaks with the south-west monsoon. |
| NTPC Rajiv Gandhi Combined Cycle Power Plant, Kayamkulam | Thermal | Alappuzha | 359.58 MW | Standby — naphtha, rarely dispatched — High fuel cost means it runs only when the grid needs it, so real output is near zero most of the year. |
| BSES Kerala Power, Kochi | Thermal | Ernakulam | 157 MW | Standby — Naphtha-fired IPP. |
| KSEBL diesel plants (Brahmapuram, Kozhikode) | Thermal | Ernakulam / Kozhikode | ≈ 234 MW nameplate | Largely retired / emergency only — Retained for black-start and emergency support rather than energy supply. |
| Kudankulam allocation (central sector) | Nuclear | Outside Kerala | ≈ 266 MW share | Allocation, not a Kerala station — Kerala has no nuclear plant. Nuclear energy arrives as a share of central generating stations in Tamil Nadu. |
| Vizhinjam wave-energy research plant (NIOT) | Tidal / wave | Thiruvananthapuram | Research scale (<0.2 MW) | Research — No commercial tidal or wave generation exists in Kerala. |
| Pumped-storage projects under study | Storage | Idukki and others | Multi-GW pipeline | Planning / DPR stage — KSEBL's route to 10,000 MW availability by 2030 leans on pumped storage rather than new large dams. |
Source: KSEBL project register, NTPC project pages, ANERT/Soura programme reporting and Kerala energy department publications. Capacities are nameplate; live output is not published for any of these.
Consumption by district — highest first
Estimate- Ernakulam≈ 3549 MU13.9%
- Thiruvananthapuram≈ 2725 MU10.7%
- Thrissur≈ 2564 MU10.1%
- Malappuram≈ 2443 MU9.6%
- Palakkad≈ 2416 MU9.5%
- Kozhikode≈ 2408 MU9.4%
- Kollam≈ 1979 MU7.8%
- Kannur≈ 1691 MU6.6%
- Alappuzha≈ 1512 MU5.9%
- Kottayam≈ 1472 MU5.8%
- Kasaragod≈ 834 MU3.3%
- Pathanamthitta≈ 764 MU3.0%
- Idukki≈ 655 MU2.6%
- Wayanad≈ 489 MU1.9%
These are estimates, not metered figures. Modelled allocation of ≈25,500 MU of KSEBL annual sales (FY 2023-24) across districts, weighted by Census district population share and a commercial/industrial intensity factor (1.45 Ernakulam, 1.15 Palakkad, 0.8 Malappuram/Idukki/Wayanad, and so on). KSEBL reports sales by electrical circle and consumer category, not by revenue district. Treat the ordering as indicative and the absolute numbers as approximate to within roughly ±20 %.
Assumptions stated in full
- Outflow in the dam report is total release. Part of it may bypass the turbines, so it cannot be converted into generated energy.
- Installed capacity is a nameplate rating from commissioning records; several stations operate below rating due to machine availability or water allocation.
- A station is listed as releasing purely because today’s report shows outflow above zero — it is not confirmation that machines are running.
- Annual output figures are design/firm capability values or historical published totals. They are never interpolated to “today’s generation”.
- District consumption is modelled from state totals; no district-level meter data was used because none is published.
- No value on this page is interpolated between reports. If today’s report omits a dam, its cells show a dash.