{"id":26535,"date":"2024-02-20T13:09:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T08:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=26535"},"modified":"2024-02-20T13:09:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T08:09:51","slug":"electricity-tariff-likely-to-increase-amidst-inflation-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/electricity-tariff-likely-to-increase-amidst-inflation-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity tariff likely to increase amidst inflation in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) is preparing to increase the electricity tariff, imposing more burden on the inflation-hit people of Pakistan. NEPRA is expected to hike the electricity tariff on account of fuel cost adjustment.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Power Purchasing Agency (CPPA) has submitted a request to Nepra for an increase of Rs 7.13 paise per unit of electricity for January.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/due-to-change-in-fuel-prices-in-pakistan-electricity-rates-raises-by-rs4-66-per-unit.html\">Electricity rates rise by Rs4.66 per unit amid increased fuel prices<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>CPPA demanded an increase in electricity prices in the context of the January fuel cost adjustment, consumers will have an additional burden of up to Rs66.77 billion on inflation-bitten consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Nepra will hold a hearing on the petition to increase the price of electricity on February 23. The revised prices will not apply to KE consumers.<\/p>\n<p>In January, the most expensive electricity was generated by diesel i.e. 10 crore units of electricity were generated at the rate of Rs45.60 per unit.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, 75 crores of units of electricity were generated from furnace oil at the rate of Rs35 per unit in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) is preparing to increase the electricity tariff, imposing more burden on the inflation-hit people of Pakistan. NEPRA is expected to hike the electricity tariff on account of fuel cost adjustment. The Central Power Purchasing Agency (CPPA) has submitted a request to Nepra for an increase of Rs 7.13 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":26538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,21,2],"tags":[12120,12118,12119],"class_list":["post-26535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-latest-news","category-news","category-pakistan","tag-electricity-bill-increase","tag-electricity-rate","tag-electricity-tariff-increase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}