{"id":541232,"date":"2022-12-06T11:50:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T06:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=541232"},"modified":"2022-12-06T11:50:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T06:20:27","slug":"power-bills-to-remain-10-20-higher-for-next-three-months-in-maharashtra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-bills-to-remain-10-20-higher-for-next-three-months-in-maharashtra\/","title":{"rendered":"Power bills to remain 10-20% higher for next three months in Maharashtra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Your electricity bills will remain 10-20% higher for three more months as Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) has approved further recovery of Fuel Adjustment Charges (FAC) in monthly power bills.<\/p>\n<p>The decision will pinch the pockets of 3.2 crore consumers in Maharashtra, including around 50 lakh in Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, power utility firms last week filed their mid-term review petitions before MERC, and sources indicated on Monday that one cannot rule out the possibility of some of the utility companies &#8220;hiking tariff&#8221; for residential and commercial consumers from April 1. The final call, however, will be taken by MERC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Your electricity bills will remain 10-20% higher for three more months as Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) has approved further recovery of Fuel Adjustment Charges (FAC) in monthly power bills. The decision will pinch the pockets of 3.2 crore consumers in Maharashtra, including around 50 lakh in Mumbai. Moreover, power utility firms last week filed their mid-term review petitions before MERC, and sources indicated on Monday that one cannot rule out the possibility of some of the utility companies &#8220;hiking tariff&#8221; for residential and commercial consumers from April 1. The final call, however, will be taken by MERC.<\/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-541232","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\/541232","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=541232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}