BENGALURU: The various Escoms (electricity supply companies) in Karnataka have been asking the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission to revise the power tariffs at the earliest. But experts and some senior energy department officials say the good monsoon showers and the pandemic have had a huge impact on the sector and the revision will be a futile exercise.Experts suggest that the department and KERC instead work on new policies and systemic corrections so that the economy is revived faster.<\/p>\n
The KERC usually announces the power tariff revision in March, coming into effect from April, but this year it has been delayed because of the pandemic and the lockdown.A KERC official said, \u201cFor the financial year 2019, Rs 2,295 crore for power purchase was allocated. The revision for power allocation was to be done in May.\u201dWhile some energy department officials state that it is about time KERC announced the revision, some others point to the legal and financial hurdles. Some others point to the ongoing Appellate Tribunal for Electricity court hearing between KPTCL and KERC for the delay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BENGALURU: The various Escoms (electricity supply companies) in Karnataka have been asking the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission to revise the power tariffs at the earliest. But experts and some senior energy department officials say the good monsoon showers and the pandemic have had a huge impact on the sector and the revision will be a futile exercise.Experts suggest that the department and KERC instead work on new policies and systemic corrections so that the economy is revived faster. The KERC usually announces the power tariff revision in March, coming into effect from April, but this year it has been delayed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375931","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}