VIJAYAWADA: Maintaining that there will be a marginal increase of electricity charges of consumers as per the Retail Supply Tariff Order released by the Andhra Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (APERC), Secretary (Energy) B Sridhar on Thursday said as the APERC fixed the tariff based on a single telescopic method, the burden will be less.
He said there will be no increase in the unit price as a whole under the method. If a consumer consumes 35 units, the charge will be Rs 1.90 per unit for the first 30 units and Rs 3 for the remaining 5 units. The APERC came up with six different slabs based on the appeals from the public. In the slab system, there is a certain price for 0 to 50 units. When a consumer uses more than 50 units, the bill will be generated as per the rates of the next slab for the whole consumption, thereby causing a huge burden on consumers.
