{"id":657899,"date":"2026-01-22T11:52:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T06:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=657899"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:52:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T06:22:41","slug":"power-ministrys-draft-policy-moots-automatic-revisions-of-tariff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-ministrys-draft-policy-moots-automatic-revisions-of-tariff\/","title":{"rendered":"Power ministry&#8217;s draft policy moots automatic revisions of tariff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The power ministry&#8217;s draft National Electricity Policy (NEP) 2026, released Wednesday, has proposed an annual reset of tariffs, including an index-linked automatic revision in case the regulator fails to act to ensure sound financial health of power utilities, while seeking to limit cross-subsidies for manufacturing units and railways, in an attempt to make tariffs reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>While underlining that coal-based generation will remain critical, it has backed nuclear capacity addition with the involvement of the private sector and suggested that atomic energy could emerge as a source for captive plants, replacing thermal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The power ministry&#8217;s draft National Electricity Policy (NEP) 2026, released Wednesday, has proposed an annual reset of tariffs, including an index-linked automatic revision in case the regulator fails to act to ensure sound financial health of power utilities, while seeking to limit cross-subsidies for manufacturing units and railways, in an attempt to make tariffs reasonable. While underlining that coal-based generation will remain critical, it has backed nuclear capacity addition with the involvement of the private sector and suggested that atomic energy could emerge as a source for captive plants, replacing thermal.<\/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-657899","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\/657899","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=657899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}