: After lying in abeyance for nearly a year, the regulations enabling consumers to get paid for unscheduled power cuts is likely to be notified next week. Once implemented, households will be reimbursed from Rs. 25 to Rs. 100 per hour if the authorities fail to take corrective action against complaints related to power outages.
Almost complete
According to the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC), work on the guidelines is in the final stages and could easily be notified in the first week of June. Speaking to The Hindu , DERC chief Krishna Saini said, “We are firming up the modalities.”
A meeting to finalise the nuances of the regulations has been called on Tuesday by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Named as the Delhi Electricity Supply Code and Performance Standards (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2015, the rules specify types of problem in electricity supply, the maximum time for resolution of the issue by discoms and the penalty to be imposed on failure to do so.
Details of the policy
The draft rules further state that in case power supply is snapped due to tripping of the MCB or the fuse blowing, the maximum time for a discom to restore it would be three hours, failure to do so would mean a penalty of Rs 100 per hour.
Similarly, in case more than 50 households face load shedding for more than an hour, each household will get Rs. 50 per hour for the first two hours and Rs. 100 per hour thereafter.
The regulations also include penalty for meter complaints.
