{"id":504598,"date":"2022-07-11T12:17:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T06:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=504598"},"modified":"2022-07-11T12:17:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T06:47:50","slug":"delhi-power-bills-jump-2-6-as-key-surcharge-hiked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-power-bills-jump-2-6-as-key-surcharge-hiked\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi power bills jump 2-6% as key surcharge hiked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power bills in the national capital have increased 2% to 6%, starting mid-June, with power regulator Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) allowing distribution companies (discoms) to levy an \u201cadditional\u201d power purchase adjustment cost (PPAC) surcharge on consumers to offset a rise in coal and gas prices and the increased dependency on short-term power purchases (STPPs), officials in the know of the matter have said.<\/p>\n<p>Power bills in the national capital have increased 2% to 6%, starting mid-June, with power regulator Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) allowing distribution companies (discoms) to levy an \u201cadditional\u201d power purchase adjustment cost (PPAC) surcharge on consumers to offset a rise in coal and gas prices and the increased dependency on short-term power purchases (STPPs), officials in the know of the matter have said.<\/p>\n<p>The surcharge increase came into effect from June 10 this year and will have reflected in bills consumers received in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power bills in the national capital have increased 2% to 6%, starting mid-June, with power regulator Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) allowing distribution companies (discoms) to levy an \u201cadditional\u201d power purchase adjustment cost (PPAC) surcharge on consumers to offset a rise in coal and gas prices and the increased dependency on short-term power purchases (STPPs), officials in the know of the matter have said. Power bills in the national capital have increased 2% to 6%, starting mid-June, with power regulator Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) allowing distribution companies (discoms) to levy an \u201cadditional\u201d power purchase adjustment cost (PPAC) surcharge on [&hellip;]<\/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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504598","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=504598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}