{"id":371033,"date":"2020-09-01T11:17:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T05:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=371033"},"modified":"2020-09-01T11:37:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T06:07:05","slug":"delhi-finances-hit-by-covid-discom-unhappy-with-no-hike-in-power-tariff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-finances-hit-by-covid-discom-unhappy-with-no-hike-in-power-tariff\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi: Finances hit by Covid, discom unhappy with no hike in power tariff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Power, which has over 18 lakh consumers in Delhi, Saturday questioned the DERC\u2019s decision to keep power tariff unchanged, saying \u201cfinancial challenges\u201d being faced by the discoms has put uninterrupted supply of power in the city at \u201cgrave risk\u201d. BSES, which has a consumer base of over 43 lakh, did not comment. <\/p>\n<p>Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) chairman Justice (retd) S S Chauhan said the discoms should guard against passing \u201coff hand remarks\u201d and wait for the tariff order to come out officially. \u201cTata is in a good condition, their credit ratings are very good, and they have been the best performers,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Citing Covid-19, DERC announced its decision to stick to the prevailing power tariffs for at least one more year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Power, which has over 18 lakh consumers in Delhi, Saturday questioned the DERC\u2019s decision to keep power tariff unchanged, saying \u201cfinancial challenges\u201d being faced by the discoms has put uninterrupted supply of power in the city at \u201cgrave risk\u201d. BSES, which has a consumer base of over 43 lakh, did not comment. Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) chairman Justice (retd) S S Chauhan said the discoms should guard against passing \u201coff hand remarks\u201d and wait for the tariff order to come out officially. \u201cTata is in a good condition, their credit ratings are very good, and they have been [&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-371033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371033","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=371033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}