{"id":652171,"date":"2025-11-10T12:30:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=652171"},"modified":"2025-11-10T13:31:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T08:01:02","slug":"ludhiana-ombudsman-pulls-up-pspcl-for-%e2%82%b99l-solar-billing-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ludhiana-ombudsman-pulls-up-pspcl-for-%e2%82%b99l-solar-billing-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Ludhiana: Ombudsman pulls up PSPCL for \u20b99L solar billing error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Punjab Electricity Ombudsman has pulled up Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) for overcharging a Khanna-based industrial unit by more than \u20b99 lakh, exposing lapses in the utility\u2019s billing practices. The dispute involved M\/s Gupta Steel Udyog in Khanna, which operates a rooftop solar system at its factory.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, the PSPCL had issued a demand notice of \u20b99,03,276 on November 5, 2024, claiming that the factory had exported excess electricity to the grid. However, the firm challenged the notice, alleging that the utility had misread solar export data and used kWh instead of kVAh units, a technical error that inflated the bill and violated the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC)\u2019s prescribed billing method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Punjab Electricity Ombudsman has pulled up Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) for overcharging a Khanna-based industrial unit by more than \u20b99 lakh, exposing lapses in the utility\u2019s billing practices. The dispute involved M\/s Gupta Steel Udyog in Khanna, which operates a rooftop solar system at its factory. Reportedly, the PSPCL had issued a demand notice of \u20b99,03,276 on November 5, 2024, claiming that the factory had exported excess electricity to the grid. However, the firm challenged the notice, alleging that the utility had misread solar export data and used kWh instead of kVAh units, a technical error that [&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-652171","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\/652171","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=652171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}