How do I count the electricity of a polishing machine in a Panipat blanket unit, when TERI says its heating power is up to 90 kW?
Count it as kilowatts (kW) drawn times hours run, which gives kilowatt hours (kWh), then times 0.675 kilograms (kg) of carbon dioxide (CO2) a kWh for financial year (FY) 2025-26. The Panipat survey says most polar blanket units run a polisher with a heating section of up to 90 kW, a printed maximum.
What a polishing machine does
Polishing is a finishing step that reduces pilling, the small balls of fibre that form on a knitted blanket, and makes it smoother. The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) says most polar and fleece blanket units in Panipat use a double roller polishing machine with heating power up to 90 kW, taking fabric up to 2.5 metres wide. The 90 kW is the top of TERI’s range for the heating section. It is not a typical or total load, and motors and drives add to it. TERI names polishing as one of the major energy-consuming processes in home furnishing units.
Where electricity sits in the cluster totals
TERI puts home furnishing at about 64% of the cluster’s energy, mainly from heat for aging, washing and printing. Electricity is a small slice. TERI’s table gives home furnishing 48 million kWh a year across 1,915 units, and by its tonne of oil equivalent (toe) columns that is about 2% of that group’s energy (4,108 of 195,360 toe, our arithmetic). TERI names polishing as one of its major electricity uses.
Two ways to count it
- From the bill: read the month’s units from the electricity bill. This covers the whole unit, not one machine. Many Panipat bills charge in kilovolt-ampere hours (kVAh), which is not kWh. Use the kWh line on the bill, or convert first (see our kVAh page).
- For the machine alone: fit a separate meter on the machine, or estimate kW × hours × the share of time it draws full power. The estimate is a guess until a meter confirms it.
- Then CO2 = kWh × 0.675 kg for FY 2025-26 (0.710 for 2024-25).
A check against the average unit
Our arithmetic: 48 million kWh ÷ 1,915 units is about 25,065 kWh a year for the average home furnishing unit, for everything it runs. A heating section at the top of TERI’s range, 90 kW drawing full power, would use that in about 278 hours (25,065 ÷ 90). The average hides a wide spread, since 1,500 of the 1,915 units are micro, so a machine near this size is more likely in the larger units. That is our reading. Do not apply the cluster average to your own unit.
Example: a polisher with a 90 kW heating section for a month
- Run 8 hours a day, 26 days a month, drawing on average 60% of 90 kW (an assumed share; 90 kW is the top of TERI’s range, not the typical machine)
- kWh = 90 × 8 × 26 × 0.6 = 11,232 kWh
- CO2 = 11,232 × 0.675 = 7,582 kg, about 7.6 tonnes
Example only. The 60% share is an assumption, not a survey figure. Motors and drives add to the heating load. The grid factor is 0.675 kg CO2 a kWh for FY 2025-26.
What Senseible does here
Senseible reads fuel invoices and electricity bills into monthly records, so the unit’s monthly electricity units, with kilovolt-ampere hours (kVAh) converted to kWh, and its CO2 sit on file. A bill covers the whole unit, so it does not give a single machine’s share; that needs a meter on the machine.
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Sources: TERI, Energy Profile: Panipat Textile Cluster, 2016 (SAMEEEKSHA)
Last reviewed 2026-11-07. Figures are from the Panipat survey of 2014-15, published in 2016. The 90 kW is a printed maximum for the heating section. The 0.675 factor is for FY 2025-26; use the factor for your bill’s financial year.