How does the earlier electricity requirement data look? The electricity requirement between April to December 2014 had gone up by 8.3 percent to 8,16,848 Kwh, in comparison to the period April to December 2013. What this clearly tells us is that the demand for electricity has gone up by a very low 2.6 percent during the course of this financial year, in comparison to 8.3 percent a year earlier. This is a clear indicator of lack of growth in industrial demand. As industrial demand picks up, demand for electricity also has to pick up.