{"id":72240,"date":"2025-04-28T10:53:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T05:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=72240"},"modified":"2025-04-28T10:53:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T05:53:27","slug":"electricity-tariff-likely-to-reduce-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/electricity-tariff-likely-to-reduce-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity tariff likely to reduce in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: In a recent development, the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/govt-recovers-rs152-billion-in-anti-theft-electricity-campaign\/\">electricity tariffs<\/a> are likely to further reduce under the Pakistan monthly and quarterly adjustments. According to the details, the March monthly adjustment might make electricity cheaper by 3 paisas per unit, while the quarterly adjustment is anticipated to result in a decrease of more than Re1 per unit.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the quarterly adjustment is expected to provide relief of about Rs51.49 billion.<\/p>\n<p>For the third quarter adjustment of the fiscal year 2024\u20132025, a formal petition has been submitted. Tomorrow, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority ( <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/nepra-proposes-50-paisa-per-unit-relief-for-consumers\/\">NEPRA) <\/a>will hold a hearing on the requests for the quarterly and monthly modifications.<\/p>\n<p>The suit claims that 8.409 billion units of power were produced in March for Rs9.22 per unit. In March, the reference price per unit for electricity was Rs9.25.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, a reduction of Rs47.124 billion is requested under the capacity charges heading in the quarterly adjustment.<\/p>\n<p>Due to Fuel Charge Adjustment (FCA), the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) lowered the electricity rate by up to Rs3 per unit in March.<\/p>\n<p>Notifications state that customers of government-owned DISCOs would receive a decrease of Rs2.12 per unit. For K-Electric customers, a price cut of Rs3 per unit was also authorized.<\/p>\n<p>Customers received the advantage of the lower electricity pricing in their March 2025 bills.<\/p>\n<p>Refunds were authorized for KE users in December 2024 and for Discos customers in January 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: In a recent development, the electricity tariffs are likely to further reduce under the Pakistan monthly and quarterly adjustments. According to the details, the March monthly adjustment might make electricity cheaper by 3 paisas per unit, while the quarterly adjustment is anticipated to result in a decrease of more than Re1 per unit. Overall, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":69277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2753,28240],"class_list":["post-72240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-nepra","tag-electricity-tariff-reduced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72240","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=72240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72241,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72240\/revisions\/72241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}