{"id":4598,"date":"2018-12-04T17:55:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T12:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/blog\/?p=4598"},"modified":"2018-12-04T17:55:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T12:25:16","slug":"relief-for-adani-tata-essar-as-gujarat-govt-approves-power-tariff-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/relief-for-adani-tata-essar-as-gujarat-govt-approves-power-tariff-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Relief for Adani, TATA &amp; Essar as Gujarat Govt. approves power tariff hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a long-pending petition by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/Companies\/yNZIktSInWsZAcNjDw4VVP\/Gujarat-allows-power-tariff-hikes-in-relief-to-Tata-Adani.html\">Adani &amp; Others<\/a> over power tariff hike, the Gujarat government has given a decision. These power projects will be allowed the power tariff hike by amending their PPAs with Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (GUVNL). The ordeal which was ongoing since 2010 has now come to a deciding point and the troubled power projects are given relief.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the increase in the tariff will be directly passed on to the consumers at an approximate rate of INR 40 paisa\/unit.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TATA &amp; Adani had earlier approached CERC seeking higher tariff on the grounds of their cost going up due to the \u201cChange in Law\u201d in Indonesia in 2010, following a regulation passed by South-East Asia Nation.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gercin.org\/uploaded\/document\/en_1357648294.pdf\">2013<\/a> CERC rejected their plea of force majeure and \u201cchange in law\u201d, but constituted a committee to suggest payment of compensatory tariff to the power company.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The apex court\u2019s directive was followed by recommendations of a committee constituted by the Gujarat government to look into the possibility of \u201ccontribution by each stakeholder, including banks, project developers and procurers, by way of concessions for mitigating hardship\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long-pending petition by Adani &amp; Others over power tariff hike, the Gujarat government has given a decision. These power projects will be allowed the power tariff hike by amending their PPAs with Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (GUVNL). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[195,71,482],"tags":[938,939,151,940,338],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}