CHENNAI: Last year, amid complaints about hefty electricity bills, some residents moved the Madras high court saying Tangedco\u2019s methodology to calculate power consumption during the Covid-triggered lockdown was arbitrary and unjust.
\nNow, a study by Citizen Consumer and Civic Action Group (CAG) and CEEW (Council on Energy, Environment and Water) suggests that Tangedco\u2019s white meter card for electricity bills provides inadequate information on consumption and tariffs when compared to bills in other states. There is a dire need to redesign power bills to provide detailed billing information, it says.
\nElectricity bills are key tools for enabling consumers to interact with the utility and various stakeholders in a transparent manner, it adds.
\nTangedco had argued that the huge bills were due to people spending more time at home.
\nThe study, \u2018Making electricity bills consumer friendly\u2019 by Pavithra Ramesh, Prateek Aggarwal and Kanika Balani, says sharing information about consumption patterns, energy conservation and energy efficiency can help manage power demand optimally. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CHENNAI: Last year, amid complaints about hefty electricity bills, some residents moved the Madras high court saying Tangedco\u2019s methodology to calculate power consumption during the Covid-triggered lockdown was arbitrary and unjust. Now, a study by Citizen Consumer and Civic Action Group (CAG) and CEEW (Council on Energy, Environment and Water) suggests that Tangedco\u2019s white meter card for electricity bills provides inadequate information on consumption and tariffs when compared to bills in other states. There is a dire need to redesign power bills to provide detailed billing information, it says. Electricity bills are key tools for enabling consumers to interact with […]<\/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-407878","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\/407878","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=407878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}