NEW DELHI: In a decision that will bring relief to nearly 15 lakh power consumers in the capital, Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) has slashed fixed charges by 50% on unutilised capacity for April-May 2020 period for industrial and non-domestic users.
\nIn an order issued on Monday, the DERC reduced fixed charges from Rs 250\/ kVA per month to Rs 125\/kVA per month for the unutilised capacity during the complete lockdown period of April 2020 and May 2020 to avoid hardships to non-domestic\/commercial and industrial consumers.
\nDERC also considered the demand of industry associations and non-domestic consumers. The total unutilised capacity during this period was 80% out of which 84% pertained to non-domestic consumers and 75% for industrial consumers.
\nDelhi\u2019s power minister Satyendar Jain said, \u201cThis will be a huge relief for the non-domestic and commercial users. The expected impact of the said waiver is around Rs 160 crore. This will benefit around 44,000 industrial consumers and around 10 lakh non-domestic\/commercial consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: In a decision that will bring relief to nearly 15 lakh power consumers in the capital, Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) has slashed fixed charges by 50% on unutilised capacity for April-May 2020 period for industrial and non-domestic users. In an order issued on Monday, the DERC reduced fixed charges from Rs 250\/ kVA per month to Rs 125\/kVA per month for the unutilised capacity during the complete lockdown period of April 2020 and May 2020 to avoid hardships to non-domestic\/commercial and industrial consumers. DERC also considered the demand of industry associations and non-domestic consumers. The total unutilised […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372423","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}