{"id":370896,"date":"2020-09-01T08:31:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T03:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=370896"},"modified":"2020-09-01T08:44:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T03:14:21","slug":"dercs-power-tariff-for-2020-21-will-add-to-financial-challenges-tpddl-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dercs-power-tariff-for-2020-21-will-add-to-financial-challenges-tpddl-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DERC&#8217;s power tariff for 2020-21 will add to financial challenges: TPDDL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new power tariff announced by the DERC for 2020-21, without any hike in the existing rates, will &#8220;substantially increase&#8221; the financial &#8220;challenges&#8221; and &#8220;ability&#8221; to ensure round-the-clock electricity supply by the discoms in Delhi, a spokesperson of the TPDDL said on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>The Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) announced the new tariff on Friday, saying no hike was considered due to the COVID-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Considering the COVID-19 pandemic, the DERC has maintained the tariff at the existing level. However, for the discoms, this tariff order will substantially increase the financial challenges and hence, the ability to ensure 24&#215;7 power supply,&#8221; the spokesperson of the Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (TPDDL) said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new power tariff announced by the DERC for 2020-21, without any hike in the existing rates, will &#8220;substantially increase&#8221; the financial &#8220;challenges&#8221; and &#8220;ability&#8221; to ensure round-the-clock electricity supply by the discoms in Delhi, a spokesperson of the TPDDL said on Saturday. The Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) announced the new tariff on Friday, saying no hike was considered due to the COVID-19 pandemic. &#8220;Considering the COVID-19 pandemic, the DERC has maintained the tariff at the existing level. However, for the discoms, this tariff order will substantially increase the financial challenges and hence, the ability to ensure 24&#215;7 power [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370896","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=370896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}