{"id":276736,"date":"2019-05-30T06:43:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T06:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=276736"},"modified":"2019-05-30T06:43:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T06:43:51","slug":"power-tariff-for-this-year-to-be-announced-today-hike-likely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-tariff-for-this-year-to-be-announced-today-hike-likely\/","title":{"rendered":"Power tariff for this year to be announced today, hike likely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Get ready to pay more for your electricity from next month. Stopped by the election model code of conduct, the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC), is all set to announce new power tariffs on Thursday. All electricity supply companies (ESCOMS) across the state had sought hikes ranging between Rs. 1 to Rs. 1.65 per unit of electricity. They cited increased costs of power purchase as well as an uncertain market for power supply as the reasons for the proposed hike. However, going by past orders, the tariff hike is likely to be between 30 paise and 35 paise. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Get ready to pay more for your electricity from next month. Stopped by the election model code of conduct, the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC), is all set to announce new power tariffs on Thursday. All electricity supply companies (ESCOMS) across the state had sought hikes ranging between Rs. 1 to Rs. 1.65 per unit of electricity. They cited increased costs of power purchase as well as an uncertain market for power supply as the reasons for the proposed hike. However, going by past orders, the tariff hike is likely to be between 30 paise and 35 paise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}