{"id":278207,"date":"2019-06-12T06:25:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T06:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=278207"},"modified":"2019-06-12T06:25:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T06:25:10","slug":"odisha-electricity-regulatory-commissions-power-tariff-charges-remain-unchanged-from-previous-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/odisha-electricity-regulatory-commissions-power-tariff-charges-remain-unchanged-from-previous-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission&#8217;s power tariff charges remain unchanged from previous year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR:  Rejecting the demand for upward revision of power tariff by distribution and bulk supply utilities, the Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) has kept the energy charges unchanged for the second year.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator had spared the consumers from tariff hike in 2018-19. There was a nominal hike of 10 paise per unit in 2017-18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe retail power tariff will remain unchanged for different categories for 2019-20 and the rebate allowed to consumers for timely payment will continue while a special rebate equal to the amount admissible for March will be given,\u201d said OERC Director (Regulatory Affairs) Priyabrat Patnaik.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR: Rejecting the demand for upward revision of power tariff by distribution and bulk supply utilities, the Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) has kept the energy charges unchanged for the second year. The regulator had spared the consumers from tariff hike in 2018-19. There was a nominal hike of 10 paise per unit in 2017-18. \u201cThe retail power tariff will remain unchanged for different categories for 2019-20 and the rebate allowed to consumers for timely payment will continue while a special rebate equal to the amount admissible for March will be given,\u201d said OERC Director (Regulatory Affairs) Priyabrat Patnaik.<\/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-278207","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\/278207","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=278207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}