Big industries in the State have asked the Kerala State Electricity Regulatory Commission (KSERC) to review its June 25 order hiking power tariffs, saying that anomalies have crept into it resulting in excessive tariffs for them.
The Kerala High Tension (HT) and Extra High Tension (EHT) Industrial Electricity Consumers’ Association told a hearing held by the commission on Friday that while the average increase in power tariffs, for all consumer categories, was 6.58%, the tariff for the EHT 66kV industrial consumers was hiked by 10.42% and that of the EHT 110 kV consumers by 10.51%.
The association, which has 167 members, represents government-run and private industries. According to it, the commission had, in its order, ''blindly reproduced'' the tariff hike proposed by the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) for these consumers.
