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The Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) government’s announcement of 200 units of escaped powerfulness for home consumers utilizing beneath 500 units bimonthly volition further summation the State’s yearly subsidy load by astir ₹2,000 crore.
A authorities bid issued connected Sunday by the Energy Department announced the 200-unit escaped energy scheme. It besides announced an further tariff subsidy load of ₹1,730 crore to beryllium compensated to the Tamil Nadu Power Distribution Corporation constricted (TNPDCL). With this, the yearly tariff subsidy for the home consumers could transverse ₹10,100 crore this fiscal, according to powerfulness managers.
A break-down of the ₹10,100-crore subsidy load connected relationship of the 2.45 crore domestic consumers would beryllium ₹9,100 crore for those consuming up to 500 units, covering 200 escaped units bimonthly, and ₹1,000 crore for the 100 units of escaped powerfulness for those consuming much than 500 units.
According to the 2025-26 argumentation enactment of the Energy Department, the full tariff subsidy fixed to the energy section was ₹15,772 crore for 2024-25. This included the subsidy for 2.45 crore domestic consumers, including those consuming much than 500 units, hutments, three-phase cultivation consumers, and powerfulness looms with 1,000 escaped units bimonthly.
A elder authoritative of TNPDCL said the large portion of the subsidy of ₹15,772 crore covered 100 units escaped for home consumers. This worked retired to astir ₹8,500 crore a year.
Under the energy tariff bid of 2025, the bimonthly complaint for zero-400 units is ₹4.95 per unit, and the authorities covered the full load of ₹4.95 for the 2.45 crore domestic consumers. In the adjacent slab of 101-200 units, the complaint was ₹4.95 per unit. But the consumers were charged lone ₹2.35. The remaining was compensated by the government. With the caller authorities announcing 200 units escaped for home consumers utilizing up to 500 units, it would person to carnivore the full load of ₹9.90 per portion for 2.20 crore of the 2.45 crore consumers. This excludes the 20 lakh consumers who usage much than 500 units bimonthly, according to the information submitted to the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission. The subsidy for 100 units volition beryllium covered for the 20 lakh consumers.
