{"id":439511,"date":"2021-10-01T09:16:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T03:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=439511"},"modified":"2021-10-01T10:04:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T04:34:13","slug":"rates-unchanged-as-delhi-announces-new-power-tariff-but-bill-may-go-up-marginally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rates-unchanged-as-delhi-announces-new-power-tariff-but-bill-may-go-up-marginally\/","title":{"rendered":"Rates unchanged as Delhi announces new power tariff, but bill may go up marginally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power regulator DERC Thursday announced new tariff for Delhi without any increase in rates, saying it did not see any &#8220;good reasons&#8221; to do so. However, the power bill for consumers may increase marginally from October 1 as the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) has raised the pension surcharge from 5 per cent to 7 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After considering all the relevant factors, the Commission has come to the conclusion that there are no good reasons to make any increase in the existing tariff structure,&#8217; the DERC said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>Last fiscal also (2020-21) also, the DERC did not hike electricity rates citing the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power regulator DERC Thursday announced new tariff for Delhi without any increase in rates, saying it did not see any &#8220;good reasons&#8221; to do so. However, the power bill for consumers may increase marginally from October 1 as the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) has raised the pension surcharge from 5 per cent to 7 per cent. &#8220;After considering all the relevant factors, the Commission has come to the conclusion that there are no good reasons to make any increase in the existing tariff structure,&#8217; the DERC said in a statement. Last fiscal also (2020-21) also, the DERC did not [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439511","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=439511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}