{"id":362090,"date":"2020-07-09T12:04:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T06:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=362090"},"modified":"2020-07-09T12:32:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T07:02:04","slug":"delayed-subsidy-poor-billing-inflated-discom-losses-in-fy19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delayed-subsidy-poor-billing-inflated-discom-losses-in-fy19\/","title":{"rendered":"Delayed subsidy, poor billing inflated discom losses in FY19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delayed subsidy disbursal by the state governments, inefficient billing and tariff collection and inadequate tariff hikes were the main reasons behind the power distribution entities\u2019 (discoms) financial losses surging 83% to Rs 61,360 crore in FY19, an analysis by PFC showed. Losses of five states \u2014 Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh \u2014 comprised 88% of the total discom losses in the country, PFC noted.<\/p>\n<p>The difference between the cost of power supply and revenue realised (ACS-ARR gap) widened in all these five states in FY19, with them losing more money for every unit of electricity sold amid 7.5% growth in supply volumes, resulting in higher losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delayed subsidy disbursal by the state governments, inefficient billing and tariff collection and inadequate tariff hikes were the main reasons behind the power distribution entities\u2019 (discoms) financial losses surging 83% to Rs 61,360 crore in FY19, an analysis by PFC showed. Losses of five states \u2014 Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh \u2014 comprised 88% of the total discom losses in the country, PFC noted. The difference between the cost of power supply and revenue realised (ACS-ARR gap) widened in all these five states in FY19, with them losing more money for every unit of electricity [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362090","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=362090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}