KSEB to submit proposal to Regulatory Commission for recovery of ‘reasonable expenditure’ incurred on providing service connections

The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) has projected a per kilowatt (kW) complaint of ₹1,800 for providing work connections nether the Low Tension (LT) category.

The KSEB absorption has decided to taxable a connection successful this respect to the State Electricity Regulatory Commission for the betterment of “reasonable expenditure” incurred successful providing work connections. The complaint projected for the LT class includes connections that necessitate the installation of transformers, according to the KSEB decision.

For the High Tension (HT) category, the KSEB has projected 2 rates: ₹2,006 per kilo-volt ampere (kVA) for connections without ringing main portion (RMU) and ₹10,352 for those with RMU.

The KSEB is filing its connection successful effect to a absorption issued by the committee successful December 2024.

While issuing elaborate orders connected the outgo information and per kVA rates for organisation works past year, the committee had directed the KSEB to record a abstracted petition for support of per kVA/kW rates.

The Electricity (Rights of Consumers) Rules, 2020, notified by the Centre, insists that caller work connections beryllium based connected per-kVA/kW rates. As per Supply Code, 2014, the organisation licensee tin retrieve ‘reasonable expenditure’ incurred for providing work connections from an applicant based connected the outgo information approved by the regulatory commission.

The KSEB has drafted its connection based connected an investigation of user information betwixt February 1, 2024 and May 31, 2025.