The A.P. Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation (APCCIF) has written a letter to Union Minister for Power R.K. Singh, requesting him to not let the Discoms pass on their losses to the consumers as it will be an unbearable burden for them.
In the letter written on Saturday, APCCIF president Pydah Krishna Prasad had said that the draft Electricity (Amendment) Rules, 2023, provided for quantification of the gains / losses accrued to the Discoms due to deviations from the approved Aggregate Technical and Commercial (AT&C) loss reduction trajectory, on the basis of average power purchase costs, and for sharing them between the Discoms and consumers.
He observed that if the Discoms start charging the consumers for the losses incurred by them, the costs for consumers would escalate, and affect the financial viability of their units at a time when they were reeling under the impact of global recession.
