{"id":651227,"date":"2025-11-04T12:01:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T06:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=651227"},"modified":"2025-11-04T12:01:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T06:31:53","slug":"tariff-error-bengalurus-power-utility-cuts-surcharge-hike-proposal-by-a-third-to-58-paise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tariff-error-bengalurus-power-utility-cuts-surcharge-hike-proposal-by-a-third-to-58-paise\/","title":{"rendered":"Tariff &amp; error: Bengaluru\u2019s power utility cuts surcharge hike proposal by a third to 58 paise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: Weeks after seeking approval to levy a surcharge of Rs 1.65 per kWh on large consumers for the 2025-26 financial year, Bescom made a sudden U-turn and softened its stance. The utility revised its proposal, now seeking only Rs 0.58 per kWh \u2014 a reduction of Rs 1.07 per kWh \u2014 leaving several industrial organisations and consumers flummoxed.<\/p>\n<p>In the first week of Oct, Bescom filed a petition before the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC), seeking permission to levy an additional surcharge of Rs 1.65 per kWh on open-access consumers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: Weeks after seeking approval to levy a surcharge of Rs 1.65 per kWh on large consumers for the 2025-26 financial year, Bescom made a sudden U-turn and softened its stance. The utility revised its proposal, now seeking only Rs 0.58 per kWh \u2014 a reduction of Rs 1.07 per kWh \u2014 leaving several industrial organisations and consumers flummoxed. In the first week of Oct, Bescom filed a petition before the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC), seeking permission to levy an additional surcharge of Rs 1.65 per kWh on open-access consumers.<\/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-651227","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\/651227","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=651227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}