For the scheme, which came into force immediately, the Telangana Discoms would create an online portal with logins given to respective departments of all the government educational institutions.
The State recorded its highest-ever peak demand of 15,573 MW at 7.30 am on Thursday, which is the highest demand met during the current financial year.
According to sources, the tedious and time-consuming long-term open access (LTOA) renewal process and other issues related to sanctions, was causing problems to open access developers in the State.
In a statement issued here on Monday, the JAC chairman G Saibabu claimed that all the outages that took place during the meetings were due to technical problems that arose at the consumers' end and not due to Discoms.
The commission's decision was based on the request by the two discoms for an extra surcharge assessment for the first half of the fiscal year 2024-25, spanning from April to September.
Facilities for this are to be set up at convenient locations in coordination with the existing Registrars of UIDAI or by becoming a UIDAI Registrar themselves.
The meter readers argue that if they start collecting data along with the regular work of generating power bills from each beneficiary, it would take a long time and they would not be able to finish the task by February 15.
During the previous government, TSERC accepted the power tariff hikes proposed by State-run power utilities several times, but the then State government had refused to pass on the burden to the public and allowed very nominal tariff hikes
Chief Minister Revanth Reddy said the transmission losses and poor collection of the power bills could be paid attention to by members from the constituencies concerned to bail out the Discoms.
