ISLAMABAD: Preliminary approval was taken to increase the price of electricity by Rs 5 per unit for one month, the increase was sought in the context of monthly fuel adjustment for February.
The Nepra Authority has completed hearing on the petition under the FCA, will issue a final decision on the price hike later.
During the hearing, member Nepra said that due to the decrease in demand for electricity, the consumers were burdened, why are they not working to increase the demand, the production of electricity from local coal has decreased by 36% and the price has increased due to not using local coal. , when you run power plants on expensive LNG, electricity will be expensive.
Member Nebra Rafiq Shaikh said that there is a separate loss of foreign exchange and a separate loss of consumers, capacity charges and fuel charges were increased by running expensive power plants.
Member Balochistan said that there will be a burden of 2 rupees 63 paisa in the quarterly adjustment and this month there will be a burden of 7 rupees 63 paisa.
According to Nepra authority, benchmarks have to be set for capacity reduction.
According to the officials of the Power Division, the government has to collect 1.2 trillion from the electricity consumers, from September 7 to March 25, electricity theft worth 11 billion 60 crore rupees has been stopped.
Chairman NEPRA said that he ordered an inquiry related to NTDC and CPP last month, the inquiry professionals are conducting the inquiry, a decision will be taken in the light of the report, the inquiry will be completed in five to seven days, on which NEPRA will decide after Eid. Will decide.
