{"id":343798,"date":"2020-03-27T11:19:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T05:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=343798"},"modified":"2020-03-27T11:58:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T06:28:03","slug":"as-domestic-demand-rises-discom-losses-set-to-widen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/as-domestic-demand-rises-discom-losses-set-to-widen\/","title":{"rendered":"As domestic demand rises, discom losses set to widen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The three-week nationwide lockdown is set to+ worsen the precarious finances of power distribution companies (discoms), as electricity demand load has shifted to homes during the lockdown, resulting in lower realizations.<\/p>\n<p>Domestic electricity connections account for around a quarter of India\u2019s power demand and contribute towards a bulk of India\u2019s average aggregate technical and commercial (AT&amp;C) losses of 21.4%. Also, the gap between the cost of electricity bought (average cost of supply) and supplied (average revenue realized) for discoms is still substantial in most states and ranges from \u20b92.13 per unit in Andhra Pradesh to \u20b90.09 in Chhattisgarh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three-week nationwide lockdown is set to+ worsen the precarious finances of power distribution companies (discoms), as electricity demand load has shifted to homes during the lockdown, resulting in lower realizations. Domestic electricity connections account for around a quarter of India\u2019s power demand and contribute towards a bulk of India\u2019s average aggregate technical and commercial (AT&amp;C) losses of 21.4%. Also, the gap between the cost of electricity bought (average cost of supply) and supplied (average revenue realized) for discoms is still substantial in most states and ranges from \u20b92.13 per unit in Andhra Pradesh to \u20b90.09 in Chhattisgarh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343798","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}