
Fixed power charges hiked 76% for industries in Gurgaon
Maintaining that "industry cannot be penalised for inefficiencies it did not create," it has demanded the formation of a joint task force (JTF) to review the tariff order to provide relief to MSMEs. Fixed charges for industry increased from Rs 165 per kVA per month to Rs 290 per kVA per month, an increase of Rs 125 per kVA per month.
With the increase in fixed charges, small enterprises with a 100 kVA sanctioned load face an increase of Rs 15,500 per month, while mid-sized firms could see their energy bills rise by over Rs 40,000 monthly.
The hike in tariff and fixed charges will total an additional burden on the state's industry, as calculated by the industry association, exceeding Rs 2,100 crore annually — Rs 1,195 crore under DHBVN and an estimated Rs 950 crore under UHBVN.
The industry pointed out that in March 2021, both discoms (DHBVN and UHBVN) reported a combined profit of around Rs 800 crore. However, in the latest submission before Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission, both the discoms showed a cumulative loss of around Rs 4,800 crore — DHBVN reported a loss of Rs 2,800 crore and UHBVN reported a loss of Rs 2,000 crore.
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Progressive Federation of Trade & Industry (PFTI) chairman Deepak Maini said, "This turnaround from profit to loss in just four years comes despite the utilities consistently reporting a downward trend of AT&C losses."
He said no adequate public reasoning or audit disclosure has been made available to justify this deterioration. They alleged that figures related to AT&C (aggregate technical & commercial) losses, particularly for the domestic category, may have been over-optimistically reported, possibly masking inefficiencies or misreporting trends over time.
"Industry cannot be penalised for all this," Maini said.
Chairman of the power committee of PFTI Sanjeev Chopra said for the industry, the power tariff was increased by Rs 0.30 per unit and fixed charges were increased by Rs 125 per kVA per month. The small industry with 100 kVA and consumption of 10,000 units will pay around Rs 15,500 extra per month. Similarly, a medium-sized enterprise with a 100 kVA load and monthly consumption of 1 lakh units will pay around Rs 42,500 additional amount per month as electricity charges.
Chopra said, "Smaller industries are now paying more per unit than large ones, despite having lower usage, an unintended punishment for size and scale."
The industry association said the discoms need to change the method of billing. In the past, billing was done on a kWh basis and industries were not incentivised to maintain capacitor banks. This led to substantial reactive power losses.

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