The Khurja potteries profile of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) says the cluster uses 18,442 tonnes of oil equivalent (toe) but its table total prints 16,192: which is right?
The table's rows add to 18,442 toe, the figure the profile's text uses, so the printed total of 16,192 is 2,250 short. The profile cannot settle it: the 80 to 85% thermal share it gives for a pottery unit sits closer to 16,192. Do not cost or size anything from either total; use your own invoices.
What the profile prints
- Text, under cluster level consumption: the total annual energy consumption is estimated at 18,442 toe.
- Table, 2015: light diesel oil and rubber process oil (LDO and RPO) 19,032 kilolitres (kL), 14,602 toe; natural gas 1.5 million cubic metres, 1,455 toe; electricity 27.7 million kilowatt hours (kWh), 2,385 toe; total 16,192 toe.
- Rows added: 14,602 + 1,455 + 2,385 = 18,442. The text matches the rows. The printed total is 2,250 lower.
Does the shares line help?
The profile says thermal energy is 80 to 85% and electrical 15 to 20% for a pottery unit, not for the cluster total, so this check applies a unit-level range to the cluster rows. On 18,442 toe, electricity is 2,385 / 18,442 = 12.9% and thermal 87.1%. On 16,192, electricity is 14.7% and thermal 85.3%, closer to the stated range but still just outside it. If 16,192 were the true total, the oil row would be 12,352 toe, not 14,602. I cannot tell from the profile which figure is wrong.
The bill column does not tie either
- Electricity: 27.7 million kWh x the printed energy charge of rupees (Rs) 6.50 a kWh is Rs 180 million; the table prints Rs 18.0 million, one tenth.
- LDO and RPO: the profile prints Rs 55,000 a kL for LDO and Rs 32,000 for RPO. 19,032 kL comes to Rs 1,047 million at the first and Rs 609 million at the second; the table prints Rs 82.0 million.
- The printed bills do add up (82.0 + 6.0 + 18.0 = 106.0), but I could not find what they are measured against, so do not take a cost from this table.
What to quote instead
- Your own litres of LDO or RPO, cubic metres of gas and kWh for the last twelve months.
- If you must cite the cluster, give the rows and say the profile's total and text differ.
- Keep oil kL and toe in separate columns, so each can be checked. That is my own advice, not the profile's.
The two totals side by side
- Rows: 14,602 + 1,455 + 2,385 = 18,442 toe, as the text says
- Printed total: 16,192 toe, a difference of 2,250
- Electricity share: 2,385 / 18,442 = 12.9%, or 2,385 / 16,192 = 14.7%
- Oil toe if 16,192 were right: 16,192 less 1,455 less 2,385 = 12,352
All figures are the profile's own. The 80 to 85% range is stated for a pottery unit. Cluster data is from 2015; the cause of the differences is not stated in the profile.
What Senseible does here
Senseible reads fuel invoices and electricity bills into monthly records, so a year of power, oil and gas bills gives you your own totals to set beside these. It does not measure boilers or read a profile report, and it is not a third-party verifier.
Sources: TERI, Cluster profile: Khurja potteries (SAMEEEKSHA, 2015)
Last reviewed 2026-11-05. TERI's table and text differ and the profile does not say which is right. Recheck the profile if it is reissued.