Delhi’s power regulator to take a call on pitch by discoms for ‘apolitical’ tariff revision

The Delhi government has started looking for a new chairman to head the city’s power regulator, which is gearing up to take a call on petitions filed by discoms to make electricity tariff revisions “apolitical” by linking them with market prices of goods and services.

The Delhi Power Department initiated the process of appointing a new chairman to Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) earlier this month by conveying the decision in a letter to all states, Union Territories, IITs, IIMs and central power sector utilities among others.

Incumbent chairman Justice (retd) Satyendra Singh Chauhan had joined the commission on July 5, 2018.