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22 paisa per unit cut okayed for next month
July 29, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) Wednesday announced providing Rs0.22/unit relief to power consumers in their next month’s bills. The authority held a public hearing on the petition of the Central Power Purchasing Agency (CPPA) that it had filed before the regulator to determine the monthly Fuel Charges Adjustment (FCA) for the month of June 2021. The regulator has tentatively worked out that the Power Distribution Companies (DISCOs) should return 22 paisa per unit to consumers in their next month bills. This relief will be given because the DISCOs had charged the higher cost from the consumers while the actual charges were low. The regulator will issue its decision in a few days and then it would be applicable. It is worth mentioning that this relief will be not available to lifeline power consumers (who use less than 50 units a month), agricultural and K-Electric consumers.
On behalf of Discos, the Central Power Purchasing Agency has demanded an additional charge of about 80 paisa per unit from consumers of Discos on account of higher generation cost of electricity consumed in June. AFP/File
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Wednesday finalised about 21 paisa per unit reduction in electricity rates for ex-Wapda distribution companies (Discos) for a month under the monthly fuel cost adjustment (FCA).
At a public hearing presided over by Nepra chairman Tauseef H. Farooqui, the regulator did not agree immediately to a Rs13.4bn worth of three year-old adjustments on the basis of which the Discos had demanded about 80 paisa per unit increase in monthly FCA.
22 paisa per unit cut okayed for power consumers July 29, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) Wednesday announced providing Rs0.22/unit relief to power consumers in their next month’s bills. The authority held a public hearing on the petition of the Central Power Purchasing Agency (CPPA) that it had filed before the regulator to determine the monthly Fuel Charges Adjustment (FCA) for the month of June 2021. The regulator has tentatively worked out that the Power Distribution Companies (DISCOs) should return 22 paisa per unit to consumers in their next month bills. This relief will be given because the DISCOs had charged the higher cost from the consumers while the actual charges were low. The regulator will issue its decision in a few days and then it would be applicable.
Transformer blast death toll climbs to 10
Week has passed, but no report of incident submitted to authorities
PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE
HYDERABAD:
The death toll from the explosion at a pole-mounted transformer in Hyderabad on July 22 climbed to 10 lives with the death of 28-year-old Faraz Ansari in the wee hours of Wednesday. He was under treatment at a private hospital in Karachi.
In the immediate aftermath of the blast, 22 people were left injured and 18 of them suffered critical burns.
A few hours before Ansari breathed his last, an assistant lineman of the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company, Muhammad Faisal Qureshi, who was also admitted to the same hospital, also succumbed to his wounds. The bodies of both the victims of alleged HESCO negligence were brought for burial to Hyderabad.