{"id":657083,"date":"2025-12-24T12:06:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=657083"},"modified":"2025-12-24T12:06:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:36:01","slug":"solar-charge-shock-ends-jerc-orders-refund-for-6k-govt-houses-in-chandigarh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/solar-charge-shock-ends-jerc-orders-refund-for-6k-govt-houses-in-chandigarh\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar charge shock ends: JERC orders refund for 6k govt houses in Chandigarh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a major relief to around 6,600 government employees living in official residences, the Ombudsman of the Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC) has stayed the levy of solar-user charges imposed on rooftop solar power plants installed on government houses in Chandigarh and ordered a refund of the amount already recovered through electricity bills over the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>As per the existing billing mechanism, households with a 6-kilowatt rooftop solar plant were being charged \u20b93,000 for a two-month billing cycle. The charge was calculated at \u20b9250 per kilowatt of sanctioned load per month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major relief to around 6,600 government employees living in official residences, the Ombudsman of the Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC) has stayed the levy of solar-user charges imposed on rooftop solar power plants installed on government houses in Chandigarh and ordered a refund of the amount already recovered through electricity bills over the past three years. As per the existing billing mechanism, households with a 6-kilowatt rooftop solar plant were being charged \u20b93,000 for a two-month billing cycle. The charge was calculated at \u20b9250 per kilowatt of sanctioned load per month.<\/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-657083","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\/657083","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=657083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}