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Aug 13 6 tweets 2 min read
How do the proposed electricity tariff revisions affect you? #defaultlk
1/There are ~1.1 million users consuming between 0-30 kWh and ~1.5 million users consuming between 31-60 kWh per month. A user in these categories will experience a maximum of Rs 255 and Rs 500 increase per month on their electricity bill, respectively.
2/There are ~1.4 million users consuming between 61-90 kWh, 693,000 users consuming between 91-120 kWh and 461,000 users consuming between 121-180 kWh per month. Users in these categories will experience a maximum of Rs 939, Rs 1,817 and Rs 2,897 increase per month, respectively.
There are approximately 187,000 users consuming more than 180 kWh per month. The minimum increase in the electricity bill per month is Rs 3,400. A household consuming 600 kWh of electricity will experience an increase of Rs 15,976 per month on their electricity bill.
A summarized version of the changes proposed to electricity tariffs👇
👆While the percentage increase for low-end users is high, the maximum increase in the monthly electricity bill is less than Rs 500 depending on the no. of units consumed. 50.7% of users fall into the 0-60 kWh category.

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Aug 14
In a previous tweet, we gave an explanation of what the increase in someone’s electricity bill would look like in rupee terms, instead of focusing only on the % increase.

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