BHUBANESWAR: With urban body polls likely to be held in April, the state energy department on Saturday requested the Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) not to hike the electricity tariff for retail consumers in 2022-23.
“During the hearing of the ARR (aggregate revenue requirement) of GridcoOdisha by OERC today, Energy Department requested the Commission not to increase retail tariff for 2022-23. It urged the Commission to take into account the surplus revenue of DISCOMs during the current year,”the Energy department said in a Twitter post on Saturday.
“OERC was requested to direct the DISCOMs (distribution companies) to bring down the aggregate technical and commercial losses faster so that consumers get the benefit of low tariff,” it added. Since the Covid-19 pandemic broke out, the commission has raised the power tariff for domestic consumers twice, first in October 2020 and again in April 2021, by 50 paise per unit.
