Islamabad: The National Regulatory Authority of Electric Power (NEPRA) on Friday notified a reduction of RS1.55 per unit in electricity rates throughout the country for a period of three months, from May to July 2025, under a quarterly adjustment mechanism.
This cut is in addition to a fuel cost adjustment of 29 paisas per unit for ex-wapda distribution companies (disc) and a reduction of RS3.64 per unit for K-Electric consumers for the month of May.
As a result, disco consumers will receive a total of RS1.84 per unit of cheaper electricity in May and then RS1.55 per unit in June and July. Similarly, K-Electric consumers will enjoy around RS5.19 per unit of cheaper rates in May and then RS1.55 per unit in June and July.
The regulator said it allowed RS1.55 per negative adjustment unit due to the quarterly rate adjustment for the quarter of January-March of the current fiscal year.
The notification said that Nepra “has decided to allow negative quarterly adjustments of RS52.6bn related to the third quarter of fiscal year 2024-25, in a period of three months, that is, May 2025 to July 2025, at a uniform rate of RS1,5538 negatives per kWh, to be applicable to all categories of consumption, except consumers sell and consumers Prebage “.
According to government policy, the same quarterly adjustments will also be applied to K-Electric consumers, with the same applicability period. In the event that invoices are issued for the applicable period of said adjustment before this notification, the adjustment will be applied in the subsequent month.
Separately, Nepra notified nightclub consumers of a negative fuel cost adjustment of 29 Paisa per negative unit in May of invoices due to consumption in February.
Similarly, Nepra also notified RS3.64 per negative fuel cost adjustment unit in May the billing against electricity consumed in February. As required by K-Electric, Nepra transmitted only a partial reduction in the fuel cost adjustment, instead of RS6.62 per fuel cost unit cheaper than the charged consumers in February.
In its notification, Nepra also ordered distribution companies to address technical losses and limitations, particularly in the light of the growing integration of distributed solar generation and timing tariff structures (Tou).
It has also been ordered that discos carry out an exhaustive study within four months to thoroughly examine the impact of existing Tou toucas times and the proposed measures to align the demand with the evolutionary loading patterns and an exhaustive evaluation of the financial and technical impacts of the solar photovoltaic integration distributed in the distribution utility operations and the infrastructure.
Posted in Dawn, May 10, 2025
