Watch| ‘Climate change, coal shortage’: Behind J-K’s unprecedented power shortage

While acute coal shortages are triggering power outages in many states of India as thermal plants continue to grapple with coal shortage, the early onset of summer “due to climate change” in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir is cited as one of the reasons for the unprecedented crisis. J-K, which usually peaked in demand in May, was hit by the intense heatwave in March this year thus increasing the electricity demand.