Islamabad:
The National Authority for Electric Power Regulation (NEPRA) on Wednesday to the State Energy Distribution Companies (DISC) that reimburse RS1,228 per unit to consumers in their invoices for the month of February 2025, because of the Monthly fuel fuel settings. (FCA) for December 2024.
The decision was made in a request from the central energy purchase agency (CPPA), looking for permission to reimburse RS1.0353 per unit. However, Nepra, after holding a public hearing on January 30, evaluated a decrease in the national average uniform of RS1.23 per unit in the applicable rates for discs.
This decline adjustment would be applied to all consumer categories, except to life line consumers, to national consumers who consume up to 300 units, electric vehicle load stations (EVC), prepaid consumers in all categories and Agricultural consumers of all xwdiscos.
The regulator also clarified that the negative adjustment because of the monthly FCA was also applicable to national consumers who had time of use time (Tou), regardless of their consumption level.
In his decision, Nepra also clarified that if the Electricity Law projects for February 2025 would have already been issued before the official notification of their last decision, the adjustment would apply to the bills for the following month: March 2025 .
Similarly, for K-Electric, the regulator approved a negative FCA of RS1.23 per unit for November 2024, which would be reflected in the bills by February 2025. If invoices of February 2025 had been issued before of the official notification, the adjustment applied in the following month.
The FCA for K-Electric was approved provisionally and underwent adjustment, once Nepra finished the tariff of several years (MYT) of the utility for the period 2024-30. Any cost difference that arises from the determination of MyT would be incorporated into future adjustments, the regulator declared.
The Farifa member rate rate, Matgar Niaz Ran lower than the RS4.98 per kilowatt hour (KWH) requested for usefulness.
Nepra determined that the real FCC of K-Electric should be negative RS5.00 per kWh, or 7.21 billion accumulatively, but retained RS5.44 billion waiting for a scrutiny of RS8.7 billion in costs related to the burden of The part, the open cycle operations, the degradation are curved, and the starting costs under the K-Electric myt.
Some officials argued that FCA’s complete relief should be transmitted to consumers, as anticipated after the public hearing. Nepra would decide later if adjusting the amount retained in advance or staggering on future FCA determinations.
Quarterly adjustment
Meanwhile, consumers will also enjoy another relief due to the cut of up to RS2 per unit in energy rate that amounts to RS52 billion, due to the second quarterly adjustment for the ongoing financial year.
After holding a public hearing chaired by the president of Neprol outgoing prosecutor.
During the hearing, the regulator examined the key components of the adjustment, with officials highlighting that the main part of the proposed relief comes from a reduction in capacity payments.
