Gurugram, March 27 -- In a relief to millions of customers across the state, the Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission (HERC) has kept power tariffs unchanged for 2026-27, rejecting the aggregate revenue requirement (ARR) petitions filed by Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited (DHBVN) and the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited (UHBVN) seeking to cover previous losses. The order came on Wednesday after multiple public hearings held by the commission on January 9. The discoms had suffered an overall revenue loss of Rs.5216.23 crore in the financial year 2024-2025 followed by a surplus of Rs.1605.17 crore in the current financial year, leaving them with a gap of Rs.4,484.71 crore loss which they wanted to recover by increasing per unit tariff of electricity in the upcoming fiscal year. While passing the order, commission chairman Nand Lal Sharma emphasised on the restructuring and strengthening of the Haryana Power Purchase Committee (HPPC) for a more transparent and cost-effective power procurement process. This affects more than 8.3 million consumers in the state, including 6,500,000 domestic, 7,15,000 agricultural and 1,37,000 industrial consumers. The order will come into effect from April 1. The discoms had hiked the power tariffs last year ranging between 20 paise to 40 paise for different categories of consumers. Before that, tariffs had last been raised in 2017-18....