Lucknow, May 28 -- Even as several parts of Uttar Pradesh continue to witness complaints of transformer failures, feeder tripping and local outages during peak summer demand, power utilities have projected an 11% rise in connected load and nearly 12% increase in electricity sales by FY2026-27 compared to 2024-25, raising fresh questions about whether the state's distribution infrastructure can cope with the rising demand.

The projections come amid repeated reports of localised outages and infrastructure stress during summer peaks despite significant expenditure on system strengthening.

While domestic consumers are set to continue to be the biggest electricity users, agriculture and industrial consumers are also projected to contribute t...