ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority today increased the power tariff by Rs3.99 per unit on account of fuel cost adjustment (FCA) for April 2022.
The Rs3.99 increase will put a burden of around Rs58.5 billion on consumers, including 17% GST.
The FCA for April 2022 will be charged with the bill of June 2022, which will be paid by all consumers’ categories of distribution companies, except the lifeline and K-Electric consumers.
The adjustment shall be shown separately in the consumers’ bills based on units billed to the consumers in the month of June 2022 by the DISCOs.
“DISCOs shall reflect the fuel charges adjustment in respect of April 2022 in the billing month of June 2022,” the notification read. It also added that the FCA would remain applicable for only a month.
The Central Power Purchasing Agency-Guarantee Limited (CPPA-G) requested an FCA of Rs4.5 per unit for the month of April 2022 for DISCOs.
The regulator had held a hearing on May 31, after which the authority approved an Rs3.99 per unit power tariff hike, which is Rs1.13 higher than the FCA of March.
Load-shedding continues as power shortfall hits 7,000MW
Meanwhile, Geo News learnt that the electricity shortfall in Pakistan has widened to over 7,000 megawatts.
These days power demand in the country has increased to 28,200 megawatts in this hot summer weather while the supply is 21,200 megawatts, with power shortfall surging to over 7,000 megawatts.
Currently, the country is obtaining 4,635 megawatts of electricity from hydropower, 1,060 megawatts from the government’s thermal power plants and 9,677 from the IPPs, the well-placed sources said.
