{"id":367876,"date":"2020-08-14T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=367876"},"modified":"2020-08-14T13:49:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T08:19:52","slug":"delhi-discoms-want-power-tariff-hiked-cite-loss-of-revenue-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-discoms-want-power-tariff-hiked-cite-loss-of-revenue-during-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi: Discoms want power tariff hiked, cite loss of revenue during pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the annual tariff revision, the capital\u2019s power discoms have petitioned the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) to take note of the \u201cunprecedented\u201d impact on their income due to closure of industries, commercial units and a dip in consumer payments due to \u201cjob losses\u201d owing to the Covid-19 lockdown. It has asked that subsidies be restricted only for \u201chonest\u201d consumers.<\/p>\n<p>DERC chairman Justice (retd) SS Chauhan told The Indian Express that the regulator will take the losses being suffered by the companies and government due to Covid-19 into account while drawing up the revised tariff, due to be issued by the end of August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the annual tariff revision, the capital\u2019s power discoms have petitioned the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) to take note of the \u201cunprecedented\u201d impact on their income due to closure of industries, commercial units and a dip in consumer payments due to \u201cjob losses\u201d owing to the Covid-19 lockdown. It has asked that subsidies be restricted only for \u201chonest\u201d consumers. DERC chairman Justice (retd) SS Chauhan told The Indian Express that the regulator will take the losses being suffered by the companies and government due to Covid-19 into account while drawing up the revised tariff, due to be issued [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367876","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=367876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}