{"id":438745,"date":"2021-09-28T11:55:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T06:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=438745"},"modified":"2021-09-28T11:55:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T06:25:29","slug":"discoms-losses-down-38-to-rs-38000-crore-in-fy20-pfc-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/discoms-losses-down-38-to-rs-38000-crore-in-fy20-pfc-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Discoms\u2019 losses down 38% to Rs 38,000 crore in FY20: PFC report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Financial losses of the state-run power distribution companies (discoms) decreased 37.8% annually to Rs 38,093 crore in FY20, the latest performance audit by Power Finance Corporation (PFC) said.<\/p>\n<p>Improved subsidy disbursal by the state governments and efficient billing by the discoms helped in narrowing the gap between the average cost of supply and revenue realised (ACS-ARR gap), leading to lowering of losses. The ACS-ARR gap of discoms reduced from Rs 0.49\/unit in FY19 to Rs 0.30\/unit in FY20, despite average power purchase cost increasing from Rs 4.64\/unit to Rs 4.73\/unit in the same period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial losses of the state-run power distribution companies (discoms) decreased 37.8% annually to Rs 38,093 crore in FY20, the latest performance audit by Power Finance Corporation (PFC) said. Improved subsidy disbursal by the state governments and efficient billing by the discoms helped in narrowing the gap between the average cost of supply and revenue realised (ACS-ARR gap), leading to lowering of losses. The ACS-ARR gap of discoms reduced from Rs 0.49\/unit in FY19 to Rs 0.30\/unit in FY20, despite average power purchase cost increasing from Rs 4.64\/unit to Rs 4.73\/unit in the same period.<\/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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438745","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=438745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}