Do the production tonnes in the Agra footwear profile from The Energy and Resources Institute match its energy figures?

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) Agra profile prints leather soles at 1,285,200 and plastic heels at 4,800,000 tonnes a year, and a total of 6,130,542, yet the cluster used 59 million kilowatt hours (kWh). Read as kilograms, those two rows fit its own kWh per kilogram (kg). That is my reading, not TERI's.

What the profile prints

• The production table is headed tonne a year: plastic sole 37,200 (150 units); shoe last 3,402 (12); leather sole 12,85,200 (3), which is 1,285,200; plastic heel 48,00,000 (20), which is 4,800,000; shoe sheet 4,740 (20). Total 61,30,542, which is 6,130,542.
• Energy: 8,624 tonnes of oil equivalent (toe) a year, with electricity of 59 million kWh.
• Specific energy consumption in kWh per kg: plastic sole 0.91, shoe last 2.67, leather sole 1.44, plastic heel 1.38, sole sheet 1.53. TERI calls the same product "shoe sheet" in the production table and "sole sheet" in the energy table and chart; this page treats them as one row.

Why the two rows look wrong

• Cluster electricity 59 million kWh over 6,130,542 tonnes is 9.6 kWh per tonne, or 0.0096 kWh per kg. The profile's own range is 0.91 to 2.67 kWh per kg.
• Leather sole as printed: 1,285,200 tonnes = 1,285,200,000 kg x 1.44 = about 1.85 billion kWh, which is 31 times the whole cluster's 59 million.
• Plastic heel as printed: 4,800,000,000 kg x 1.38 = about 6.6 billion kWh, which is 112 times the cluster's 59 million.

What happens if those two rows are kilograms (my reading)

• Plastic sole 37,200 tonnes x 0.91 = 33.85 million kWh. Shoe last 3,402 x 2.67 = 9.08 million. Shoe sheet 4,740 x 1.53 = 7.25 million.
• Leather sole 1,285,200 kg x 1.44 = 1.85 million kWh. Plastic heel 4,800,000 kg x 1.38 = 6.62 million.
• The five rows add to 58.66 million kWh, which is 99.4% of the 59 million kWh printed. That close a match is why I read the two rows as kilograms.
• It is not proof. The profile does not say that its kWh per kg counts electricity only, and heels would be 11% of the cluster's electricity but only 6.4% of its energy (555 of 8,624 toe).

What to do with it

Do not quote 6,130,542 tonnes, or a leather sole or heel tonnage, to a buyer. If you need unit output for the cluster, use your own units' production records. Ask TERI to confirm the units of the two rows.

The check in four lines

• Printed total: 37,200 + 3,402 + 1,285,200 + 4,800,000 + 4,740 = 6,130,542
• Printed rows x kWh per kg x 1,000: 33.85 + 9.08 + 1,850.7 + 6,624 + 7.25 million = about 8,525 million kWh, against 59 million
• With the two large rows as kilograms: 33.85 + 9.08 + 1.85 + 6.62 + 7.25 = about 58.66 million kWh
• 58.66 / 59 = 99.4%

Every input is a figure printed in the profile. The reading that two rows are kilograms is mine.

What Senseible does here

Senseible reads fuel invoices and electricity bills into records by billing period, so your own unit's kWh per month is on file to set against the profile's kWh per kg. Production weights come from your own records.

• Agra footwear component cluster energy
• Electricity per pair for an Agra shoe unit
• What EU brands ask Kanpur, Agra and Ambur leather exporters for

Sources: TERI, Cluster profile: Agra footwear industries (2015, data for 2014-15), CEA, CO2 Baseline Database for the Indian Power Sector, version 22.0

Last reviewed 2026-11-06. The profile is TERI 2015 with data for 2014-15. It also gives the electricity share as both 58% and 87%, and about 200 units in text against 205 in the table; this page uses the printed table figures. Confirm units with TERI before you quote any production total.