{"id":657593,"date":"2026-01-09T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=657593"},"modified":"2026-01-09T12:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:47:00","slug":"herc-asks-power-firms-to-reduce-loss-of-electricity-during-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/herc-asks-power-firms-to-reduce-loss-of-electricity-during-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"HERC asks power firms to reduce loss of electricity during distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission (HERC) on Thursday directed state\u2019s two power distribution companies, the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) and Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) to reduce aggregate technical and commercial (AT&amp;C) losses at all costs.<\/p>\n<p>Technical loss of electricity refers to the total energy lost due to infrastructure issues like transformer or line disturbances, while losses on account of metre damage, theft or bill collection inefficiency come under commercial loss. UHBVN\u2019s AT&amp;C losses in 2024-25 are 9.33% while that of DHBVN are 10.26 %.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission (HERC) on Thursday directed state\u2019s two power distribution companies, the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) and Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) to reduce aggregate technical and commercial (AT&amp;C) losses at all costs. Technical loss of electricity refers to the total energy lost due to infrastructure issues like transformer or line disturbances, while losses on account of metre damage, theft or bill collection inefficiency come under commercial loss. UHBVN\u2019s AT&amp;C losses in 2024-25 are 9.33% while that of DHBVN are 10.26 %.<\/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-657593","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\/657593","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=657593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}