September 08, 2008

Industries to pay 33% more for power in Uttarakhand

BS reported that the Uttarakhand Electricity Regulatory Commission has increased the new power tariffs applied on various industries in the state by 10% to 33%.

For low tension industrial consumers, the commission has nominally increased the tariff by 10% to 12% considering the increase in average cost of supply and inflation. Under the revised tariff approved by the commission for LT industrial consumers, the charges would be INR 2.75 per unit instead of the existing rate of INR 2.45 per unit. The fixed charge has also been increased to INR 70 per KW per month in place of the existing charge of INR 60 per KW.

High Tension industry consumers with load factor up to 33% shall pay the energy charge of INR 2.20 per KVAh. Those with load factor above 33% and up to 50% shall pay INR 2.40 per KVAh and those above 50% shall pay INR 2.65 per KVAh. Demand charges have been staggered on the basis of the size of the industries. HT industries with load up to 1000 KVA shall pay demand charges of INR 150 per KVA per month and those above this load shall pay INR 200 per KVA per month.

An official of UERC said though the steel industry has been given some relief which has been clubbed with HT industry. This means the hike imposed on the steel industry in the past now stands cancelled. He said “A separate category of steel unit has now been done away with and from now on, there is only one category of HT industries.”