{"id":370608,"date":"2020-08-29T09:45:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T04:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=370608"},"modified":"2020-08-29T10:05:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T04:35:06","slug":"for-the-sixth-year-no-power-rate-hike-for-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/for-the-sixth-year-no-power-rate-hike-for-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"For the sixth year, no power rate hike for Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi has yet again been spared an increase in electricity rates by the regulator, sixth year in a row. The new tariff schedule will be applicable from 1 September.<\/p>\n<p>The tariff levels for the year to March will remain unchanged primarily because the regulator didn\u2019t consider any revenue increase for the distribution firms\u2014BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd (BRPL), BSES Yamuna Power Ltd (BYPL), Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (TPDDL), and New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) on account of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>While the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) increased the pension trust surcharge from the 3.80% to 5% for the erstwhile Delhi Vidyut Board employees, it waived off the 20% surcharge under time of day (ToD) tariff for September 2020 to provide relief to consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi has yet again been spared an increase in electricity rates by the regulator, sixth year in a row. The new tariff schedule will be applicable from 1 September. The tariff levels for the year to March will remain unchanged primarily because the regulator didn\u2019t consider any revenue increase for the distribution firms\u2014BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd (BRPL), BSES Yamuna Power Ltd (BYPL), Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (TPDDL), and New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) on account of the coronavirus pandemic. While the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) increased the pension trust surcharge from the 3.80% to 5% for the erstwhile [&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":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370608","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\/370608","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=370608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}