Tag: UPERC

By Shruti Sharma, Like most Indian states, Uttar Pradesh's discoms have the twin challenge of universal household electrification while also ensuring revenue matches the cost of supply. But growing demands for electrification and subsidies, combined with a lack of revenue recovery from those consumers, conflicts with the discoms' ability to cover their costs. This has resulted in an increasing revenue gap that peaked at Rs 21,486 crore in FY 2016. Part of the reason for poor revenue generation is the inability of discoms to charge consumers the true cost of electricity....