{"id":258328,"date":"2026-01-22T17:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/258328\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T17:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:39:10","slug":"mandatory-annual-revision-of-electricity-tariffs-on-the-cards-financial-express-mumbai-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/258328\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory annual revision of electricity tariffs on the cards | Financial Express Mumbai &#8211; newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE UNION POWER ministry on Wednesday released the draft National Electricity Policy (NEP) 2026, proposing an index-linked annual revision of electricity tariffs in cases where state electricity regulatory commissions (SERCs) fail to revise tariffs on time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:27px;color:#313131;\">At present, power tariffs are fixed by regulators based on tariff petitions filed by electricity discoms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:27px;color:#313131;\">The proposal is significant as power tariffs have not been revised regularly in several states despite repeated emphasis by the Centre on cost-reflective tariffs to reduce discom losses. The average tariff for residential electricity consumption in the country is around %6 per unit, while industrial consumers pay about %10.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:27px;color:#313131;\">Speaking at an event, Union Power Minister Manohar Lal urged discoms to move towards cost-reflective tariffs and asked utilities not to commit free power supply unless state governments release subsidies in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE UNION POWER ministry on Wednesday released the draft National Electricity Policy (NEP) 2026, proposing an index-linked annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[124207,124204,72,124211,113,124202,124201,61,124210,60,709,124205,124198,124203,124197,124209,124199,124208,124206,124200],"class_list":{"0":"post-258328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-android-magazine","9":"tag-best-magazine","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-digital-magazines","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-free-magazine","14":"tag-free-magazines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ipad-magazine","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-magazine","19":"tag-magazine-subscription","20":"tag-magazines","21":"tag-magazines-for-smartphones","22":"tag-magzter","23":"tag-online-digital-magazine","24":"tag-online-magazine","25":"tag-online-pdf-magazine","26":"tag-pdf-for-smartphones","27":"tag-pdf-magazine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}