{"id":643788,"date":"2025-08-20T09:02:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=643788"},"modified":"2025-08-20T09:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:14:16","slug":"tnpdcl-mulls-hike-in-additional-surcharge-for-open-access-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tnpdcl-mulls-hike-in-additional-surcharge-for-open-access-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"TNPDCL mulls hike in additional surcharge for open access buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Power Distribution Corporation Limited (TNPDCL) has filed a petition before the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) seeking approval to increase the additional surcharge payable by open access consumers from the present rate of 10 paise per unit to Rs 1.14 per unit. <\/p>\n<p>If TNERC accepts the proposal and issues necessary orders, open access consumers \u2014 referring to the category of high tension (HT) consumers who buy (electricity) from third party sale and power exchanges \u2014 have to pay the new additional surcharge for the period from October 1, 2025, to March 31, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Power Distribution Corporation Limited (TNPDCL) has filed a petition before the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) seeking approval to increase the additional surcharge payable by open access consumers from the present rate of 10 paise per unit to Rs 1.14 per unit. If TNERC accepts the proposal and issues necessary orders, open access consumers \u2014 referring to the category of high tension (HT) consumers who buy (electricity) from third party sale and power exchanges \u2014 have to pay the new additional surcharge for the period from October 1, 2025, to March 31, 2026.<\/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":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643788","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=643788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}