{"id":4724,"date":"2023-01-18T08:56:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T03:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4724"},"modified":"2025-03-27T02:03:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:33:05","slug":"what-is-rule-14-in-the-new-electricity-amendment-rules-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-rule-14-in-the-new-electricity-amendment-rules-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Rule 14 in the new Electricity (Amendment) Rules, 2022?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>What does Rule 14 say?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It<strong> permits distribution companies (Discoms) to automatically recover from consumers, on a monthly basis, the expenses arising out of variations in fuel price and power purchase costs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It requires the <strong>State electricity regulatory commission to specify a price adjustment formula<\/strong> for automatically passing on the costs through the consumer tariff on a monthly basis.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fuel and power purchase adjustment surcharges shall be calculated and billed to consumers<\/strong>, automatically, without going through the regulatory approval process, on a monthly basis, according to the formula, prescribed by the respective State Commission.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What are DISCOMS?<\/h3>\n<p>DISCOM stands for Distribution Companies. They get electricity from the transmission and manages the further network and distribute the electricity to the consumers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/explained-why-is-kerala-opposing-the-new-electricity-rules\/article66384394.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Explained | Why is Kerala opposing the new Electricity Rules?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rule 14 permits Discoms to recover expenses from consumers arising out of variations in fuel price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}