Islamabad:
The Minister of Energy, Awais Leghari, wrote letters to all the ministers in chief concerning the decision to stop the collection of electricity rights through electricity bills from July 1, 2025.
In his letters, the federal minister asked for the support of all the ministers in chief in the abolition of complexities resulting from multiple charges, taxes and rights obtained thanks to consumption bills.
He said that high electricity prices are already an important challenge, and the additional burden of various samples further complicates the billing structure, which makes consumers difficult to understand and manage their electricity costs.
The Minister also underlined the efforts of the federal government to reduce power prices, in particular by renegotiating independent electricity producer contracts (PPI), reducing the return to equity (ROE) for public power plants belonging to the government and by implementing other structural reforms.
“In parallel, we also undertake to simplify electricity bills so that they mainly reflect the real cost of energy consumption, rather than serving as a collection mechanism for various additional costs,” he added.
Leghari has written that, to achieve this objective, the energy division plans to abolish costs not linked to the electricity of consumption bills.
“Within the framework of this initiative, the electricity division decided to stop the collection of electricity rights through electricity bills from July 2025. We ask provincial governments to explore alternative mechanisms for the collection of provincial and duties, rather than counting on electricity bills as a collection channel,” he said.
He expressed his confidence that this decision will not only make electricity bills more transparent and easier to understand, but guarantee that consumers only pay the cost of electricity, rather than a mixture of other costs.
The Minister of Energy also asked for the cooperation of all the ministers in chief in the identification and implementation of alternative income collection methods, which will contribute to this initiative a success.
