There are normally three indices to look at the growth rate of electrical energy (i) number of consumers, (ii) connected load and (iii) energy consumption. A look at these indices can only indicate the primary users and not how they use the energy.

Table 9 gives the number of installation for various categories like domestic, AEH, agriculture, LT industries. HT industries etc. The greatest growth rate is for LT industries (38.66%). This is followed by AEH consumers (19.15%). If we take the increase for three years 1980-83 into account even then the growth rate for LT industries is the highest (72.18%). The next greater growth rate is again the AEH category. The growth rate for HT industries is 4.76% during 82-83 and 23.17% during 1980-83.

Table 10 illustrates the profile of connected load in various sectors. The annual increase for the year 1982-83 is greatest for LT industries (27.33) again followed by AEH consumers. When the increase for three years (1980-83) is looked at, the connected load for the AEH category grows faster (67.4) than that for LT industries. HT industries show a small growth rate. The overall annual growth rate is only 11.54. Both AEH and LT industries have growth rates greater than the overall growth rate. In the case of the three years growth rate AEH and LT industries as well as commercial categories have greater increases than the overall value.

Table 11 continues the profile of connected load. Even though HT industries consume a maximum amount of electrical energy, it is the agricultural load that is the highest from the point of view of connected load; irrigation pumpsets take up 29.06% of the connected load followed by HT industries - 21.23%. AEH category comes third with 17.54%.

Spatial distributions of connected load and the number of installations are given in Table 12 and 13. Bangalore accounts for 31.55% of the total connected load for LT industries and 26.31% of the connected load for HT industries. Belgaum accounts for 24.04% of the connected load, most of it by one industry. Shimoga division accounts for 14.8% of total connected load for HT. Mysore, Sirsi and Bellary divisions account for about 4% each. All other divisions have low shares of HT. The distribution for LT industries looks better. About 12 divisions have a connected load greater than the average and 14 divisions have a connected load less than the average. (This excludes Bangalore divisions) Bellary II and Madikeri are very poor from the point of view of both LT and HT industries. Bijapur, Chickmagalur, Chitradurga and Chickballapur come next. Their industrial profiles are poor.

Table 13 gives the spatial distribution based on the number of installations. There is a strong correlation between connected load and number of installations for LT industries, but this is not true for HT industries. Hence, a further segregation of HT industries is done. Four categories are defined (i) more than 1000 KVA capacity (ii) those having 501-1000 KVA (iii) those in the range 251-500 KVA and (iv) those in the range 100-250 KVA. The number of installations for these categories in all divisions and their percentages are given in Table 14

From Table 14, we can see that Bangalore accounts for 57% of very large (1000 KVA) industries, for 53% of large HT industries (501-1000 KVA) for 44% of medium (251-500 KVA) industries and for 29.3% of small HT industries. The figures in brackets in the table give the percentage of the number of installations for that category and division.