Nepra makes electricity unit Rs1.65 costlier for people using over 300 units

ISLAMABAD: The national power regulator (NEPRA) has on Monday sanctioned another fuel adjustment for power producers making one unit of electricty Rs1.65 more expensive for consumers consuming more than 300 units a month, ARY News reported.

The price hike will apply from October bills where one power unit will cost Rs18.9 instead of Rs16.44, National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has notified it.

With this increase, the collective burden borne by the people will be Rs90 billion as about 80 per cent of the consumers use more than 300 units a month.

The upward revision of unit prices due to fuel price adjustment done last month expired on Sep 30 and now the power regulator announed another more expensive adjustment.

However, this adjustment will not factor in in the bills of K Electric consumers.

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In a separate but relevant development earlier this week, the Karachi Chambers of Commerce boycotted the announcement of the public hearing by the power regulator to decide on power tariffs alleging the decisions are always preordained to favour Karachi Electric.

The business community of the KCCI alleged that the only reason of these public hearings, convened by the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority, is to please KE and the exercise is a rubber stamp event to legitimize the process.

They have always taken the decisions in advance but only to fool us they convince these public huddles, traders alleged. We will boycott the September 30 Nepra public hearing, the said.