{"id":66452,"date":"2025-02-25T12:35:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T07:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=66452"},"modified":"2025-02-25T12:35:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T07:35:04","slug":"nepra-to-consider-k-electrics-request-for-power-tariff-reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/nepra-to-consider-k-electrics-request-for-power-tariff-reduction\/","title":{"rendered":"NEPRA to consider K-Electric&#8217;s request for Power Tariff reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: Consumers of electricity in Karachi may soon enjoy a respite from a high tariff as per unit reduction of Rs 4.95 is expected. K-Electric has filed a petition with the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/nepra-proposes-rs20-per-unit-cut-in-electricity-prices-under-winter-package\/\">National Electric Power Regulatory Authority<\/a>\u00a0(NEPRA) for the reduction in electric prices.<\/p>\n<p>A hearing will take place for<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/k-electrics-receives-bids-for-pakistans-maiden-220mw-hybrid-wind-solar-project\/\"> K-Electric&#8217;s<\/a> petition about the monthly fuel adjustment for December. If it gets approved the power tariff will be reduced and the consumers will be relieved by Rs 4.94 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The development took root after <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pm-shehbaz-unveils-new-system-for-ensure-timely-justice-delivery\/\">Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif<\/a> last week announced a further reduction in power tariffs for domestic and industrial consumers through reforms in the electricity sector.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister was said to be satisfied with the present changes in the electric sector, terming it a &#8220;good result.&#8221; He further said that he will commit to guaranteeing the supply of affordable, sustainable energy.<\/p>\n<p>The renegotiation of contracts with the Independent Power Producers was supposed to save the national treasury and lower electricity bills for consumers.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Prime Minister pledged to begin an intensive campaign against electricity theft to eliminate losses incurred by distribution companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: Consumers of electricity in Karachi may soon enjoy a respite from a high tariff as per unit reduction of Rs 4.95 is expected. K-Electric has filed a petition with the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority\u00a0(NEPRA) for the reduction in electric prices. A hearing will take place for K-Electric&#8217;s petition about the monthly fuel adjustment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":13456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5404,23646,19544],"class_list":["post-66452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-pm-shehbaz-sharif","tag-national-electric-power-regulatory-authority-nepra","tag-power-tariff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66452","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66455,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66452\/revisions\/66455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}