{"id":524686,"date":"2022-09-24T10:48:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T05:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=524686"},"modified":"2022-09-24T11:58:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T06:28:11","slug":"karnataka-power-bills-to-get-costlier-for-third-time-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/karnataka-power-bills-to-get-costlier-for-third-time-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka: Power bills to get costlier for third time this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity will get costlier by a whopping 43 paise per unit as the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) has allowed electricity supply companies (Escoms) to recover additional expenses. <\/p>\n<p>This year, the series of hikes began in April when the annual tariff was increased by 35 paise per unit. The second hike came in June in the form of fuel adjustment charges. KERC allowed Escoms to collect fuel adjustment costs per each unit starting from 31 paise (Bescom) to 27 paise (Hescom), 26 paise (Gescom), 21 (Mescom ) and 19 paise (Cesc) from July 1 to December 31. <\/p>\n<p>The third order from KERC dated September 19 hikes the electricity charges with effect from October 1 to March 31, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity will get costlier by a whopping 43 paise per unit as the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) has allowed electricity supply companies (Escoms) to recover additional expenses. This year, the series of hikes began in April when the annual tariff was increased by 35 paise per unit. The second hike came in June in the form of fuel adjustment charges. KERC allowed Escoms to collect fuel adjustment costs per each unit starting from 31 paise (Bescom) to 27 paise (Hescom), 26 paise (Gescom), 21 (Mescom ) and 19 paise (Cesc) from July 1 to December 31. The third order [&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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524686","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=524686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}