Mumbai : The Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) in its order on the multi-year tariff proposals has approved 3.9% overall increase in average tariff of Tata Power users and 5.2% of RInfra users for 2015-16.
This means that consumers of Tata Power (Distribution) and Reliance Infrastructure (RInfra) (Distribution) in Greater Mumbai will have to pay higher electricity tariff from June 1, 2015.
“Mumbai is an island city faced with a unique situation where it has multiple distribution licensees, RInfra, Tata, and BEST in the same supply area. All three have different cost of supply, consumer mix and consumption mix wheeling charges.
Hence, different tariffs for the same category of consumers depending on the licenses areas,” MERC said in its order.
As per the new tariff structure, Below Poverty Line consumers of RInfra, TPC and Mahavitaran will have to pay per unit Rs 2.72, Rs 1.41 and 87 paise, respectively.
The fixed costs for all the three utilities for this category have been increased to bring it at par to Rs 10.
MERC has also increased the fixed cost for all the three utilities for consumers using up to 100 units to Rs 50 from the current Rs 40. The Commission has, however, reduced the tariff for railway by 10 per cent from Rs 9.37 to Rs 8.46.