Himachal Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission Determines Additional Surcharge

HPERC in its recent order determined the Additional Surcharge on the consumers availing Short Term Open Access Consumers. The Commission earlier approved the rate of additional surcharge as 78paise/kWh in its order dated 18th Feb, 2016.
The HPSEBL has, vide the present petition, requested the Commission to approve the Additional Surcharge of 80 paise per unit for STOA.
After reviewing all the comments and suggestion from the stakeholders and objectors the commission deter-mines the Additional surcharge to be 49.16paise/kWh. The graph below depicts the change in additional sur-charge over the past three control periods :-

The regulation can be accessed here.