SC orders DISCOMs to clear their regulatory assets | Explained

SC orders DISCOMs to clear their regulatory assets | Explained

The story so far: The Supreme Court recently directed the State Electricity Regulatory Commissions (SERCs) and distribution companies (DISCOMs) to clear the existing regulatory assets within four years and liquidate any new assets within three years. The court also advised capping the regulatory asset at 3% of a DISCOM’s Annual Revenue Requirement (ARR) and instructed regulators to set out transparent roadmaps for recovery, along with conducting intensive audits of DISCOMs that continue without recovering these assets. What are regulatory assets? Regulatory assets constitute the unrecoverable revenue gap due to the

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