{"id":370723,"date":"2020-08-29T11:08:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T05:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=370723"},"modified":"2020-08-29T12:08:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T06:38:55","slug":"no-change-in-power-tariff-marginal-hike-in-pension-surcharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/no-change-in-power-tariff-marginal-hike-in-pension-surcharge\/","title":{"rendered":"No change in power tariff, marginal hike in pension surcharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power bills of all consumers will see a marginal hike of 1.2 percentage points from September 1 as the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) on Friday announced the new tariff order for 2020-21, keeping the per unit and fixed rates constant but slightly increasing a surcharge.<\/p>\n<p>The DERC kept all rates such as per unit energy cost and fixed charges on the sanctioned load of every household same as before. But power bills will still see a minor increase as the regulator raised the \u2018pension trust surcharge\u2019 from 3.8% to 5%.<\/p>\n<p>Chief minister and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal tweeted soon after the regulator announced the power tariff changes, saying this is the sixth consecutive year that people had been spared of a tariff hike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power bills of all consumers will see a marginal hike of 1.2 percentage points from September 1 as the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) on Friday announced the new tariff order for 2020-21, keeping the per unit and fixed rates constant but slightly increasing a surcharge. The DERC kept all rates such as per unit energy cost and fixed charges on the sanctioned load of every household same as before. But power bills will still see a minor increase as the regulator raised the \u2018pension trust surcharge\u2019 from 3.8% to 5%. Chief minister and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal tweeted soon [&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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370723","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=370723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}