Overview
- The Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission approved higher PPAC/FPPAS for April 2026, setting rates at BRPL 17.94%, BYPL 17.43% and TPDDL 16% to allow part of the spike in procurement costs to be passed to consumers.
- The commission moved Delhi from quarterly to monthly PPAC reviews and created a carry‑forward rule called Component F that lets unrecovered amounts be collected in later billing cycles when limits permit.
- Most subsidised residential consumers will not see any change because Delhi’s subsidy is linked to units consumed; higher‑use and non‑subsidised households will face modest increases with examples showing an extra about ₹56–₹102 in BRPL areas and about ₹92–₹170 in BYPL areas for 400–600 unit households.
- Discoms had asked to recover much larger sums (BRPL and BYPL sought roughly 31–35%), but DERC approved smaller increases while temporarily relaxing the previous 10% recovery cap for April to ease utilities’ liquidity pressures.
- The decision has drawn calls for deeper review from experts and resident groups over audits and growing regulatory assets while the power minister defended the move as a necessary response to sharply higher fuel, import and transport costs.