{"id":634376,"date":"2024-02-14T10:42:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T05:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=634376"},"modified":"2024-02-14T12:07:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T06:37:35","slug":"rlys-not-a-deemed-distribution-licensee-liable-to-pay-surcharges-aptel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rlys-not-a-deemed-distribution-licensee-liable-to-pay-surcharges-aptel\/","title":{"rendered":"Rlys not a deemed distribution licensee, liable to pay surcharges: APTEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what could impact the electricity procurement planning of the national transporter, the Appellate Tribunal of Electricity (APTEL) has ruled that the Indian Railways is &#8216;not a deemed distribution licensee.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>The Tribunal, in a 387-page judgement, said that as the Railways consumes all the electricity that it procures, it is not a licensee and hence is liable to pay additional surcharges and cross subsidy surcharges like any other open access electricity consumer. <\/p>\n<p>The APTEL pronounced the judgement in a batch of cases filed by various state power distribution companies and the Indian Railways to examine whether Indian Railways falls within the term &#8216;Appropriate Government&#8217; under Section 14 of the Electricity Act, 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what could impact the electricity procurement planning of the national transporter, the Appellate Tribunal of Electricity (APTEL) has ruled that the Indian Railways is &#8216;not a deemed distribution licensee.&#8217; The Tribunal, in a 387-page judgement, said that as the Railways consumes all the electricity that it procures, it is not a licensee and hence is liable to pay additional surcharges and cross subsidy surcharges like any other open access electricity consumer. The APTEL pronounced the judgement in a batch of cases filed by various state power distribution companies and the Indian Railways to examine whether Indian Railways falls within [&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":[135,130,256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634376","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=634376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}