Delhi: Tariffs same, but power bills to go up marginally

Electricity bills in the national capital will increase by 2 percentage points from October 1, as the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) on Thursday announced the new power tariff order for 2021-22.

In its order, DERC, like last year, kept all other rates such as per unit energy cost and fixed charges on the sanctioned load of every household constant. However, the pension trust surcharge was increased from 5% to 7%.

Delhi has at least 5.5 million domestic power consumers.

Apart from the goods and services tax, two surcharges are levied on every electricity bill in Delhi. These are the pension surcharge, which goes towards paying pension to former employees of power utilities before the electricity sector was decentralised, and the regulatory assets surcharge,