{"id":560518,"date":"2023-03-04T12:23:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T06:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=560518"},"modified":"2023-03-04T12:23:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T06:53:08","slug":"uppcl-gets-commissions-notice-over-demand-to-lower-power-tariff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uppcl-gets-commissions-notice-over-demand-to-lower-power-tariff\/","title":{"rendered":"UPPCL gets commission\u2019s notice over demand to lower power tariff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UP Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) on Friday sought a response from the UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) on a consumer body\u2019s written demand for reduction in electricity tariff to adjust \u20b925,133 crore that the corporation \u2018overcharged\u2019 power users over the years.<\/p>\n<p>A notice was served on the UPPCL after UP Rajya Vidyut Upbhokta Parishad chairman Avdhesh Kumar Verma met UPERC chairman and submitted a petition objecting to the commission\u2019s plan to hold public hearings on the UPPCL\u2019s proposal for 18-23% tariff hike in the next financial year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublic hearings should be held on reducing, and not increasing, power tariff given that the UPERC itself ruled a few years ago that the UPPCL overcharged consumers&#8230; Consumers\u2019 dues against the UPPCL, including interests, are now \u20b925,133 crore,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UP Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) on Friday sought a response from the UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) on a consumer body\u2019s written demand for reduction in electricity tariff to adjust \u20b925,133 crore that the corporation \u2018overcharged\u2019 power users over the years. A notice was served on the UPPCL after UP Rajya Vidyut Upbhokta Parishad chairman Avdhesh Kumar Verma met UPERC chairman and submitted a petition objecting to the commission\u2019s plan to hold public hearings on the UPPCL\u2019s proposal for 18-23% tariff hike in the next financial year. \u201cPublic hearings should be held on reducing, and not increasing, power tariff [&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-560518","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\/560518","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=560518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}