{"id":659052,"date":"2026-03-06T12:15:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659052"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:46:00","slug":"guest-column-price-of-uncertainty-why-power-tariffs-need-legal-predictability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/guest-column-price-of-uncertainty-why-power-tariffs-need-legal-predictability\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Column| Price of uncertainty: Why power tariffs need legal predictability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s shift to tariff-based competitive bidding is one of the most important institutional reforms in the power sector since the Electricity Act, 2003. Section 63 moved the sector from administered cost-plus tariffs to tariffs discovered through transparent competition and subsequently adopted by regulators. The central government\u2019s competitive bidding guidelines, along with standard bidding documents for Case-1 and Case-2 procurement, created a common national framework for long-term power contracting.<\/p>\n<p>Under Case-1 bidding, procurers invite bids without specifying the project site or fuel source, leaving developers to arrange land, fuel linkages, and clearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s shift to tariff-based competitive bidding is one of the most important institutional reforms in the power sector since the Electricity Act, 2003. Section 63 moved the sector from administered cost-plus tariffs to tariffs discovered through transparent competition and subsequently adopted by regulators. The central government\u2019s competitive bidding guidelines, along with standard bidding documents for Case-1 and Case-2 procurement, created a common national framework for long-term power contracting. Under Case-1 bidding, procurers invite bids without specifying the project site or fuel source, leaving developers to arrange land, fuel linkages, and clearances.<\/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-659052","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\/659052","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=659052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}