Summary:
the past 12 months) between 10 a.m.
6 p.m.Bescom officials said overall, there were around 13,000 HT consumers, and around 6,000 of them HT 2(a) consumers (industries, etc.). more-inUse at night, pay lesser for power: the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) is hoping that the night-time special incentive scheme for HT consumers, approved by the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) recently, will meet the expected success. Losing high paying HT consumers has been one of the pain points for Bescom, which had managed to retain more consumers in its grid the previous financial year. The special scheme encourages HT consumers to use power between 10 p.m.
and 6 a.m.
— the non-peak hours — at concessional rates by offering a rebate of ?2 per unit. The collective amount from rural and urban local bodies, for water supply, that the power utility is yet to receive is ?1,182 crore while they owe ?218 crore for streetlights..