Islamabad:
Karachi electricity consumers should benefit from RS6.62 relief per unit in electricity bills due to the adjustment of fuel costs (FCA) for the month of February 2025.
KE consumers have benefited from electricity prices for a few months due to a reduction in energy prices used in electricity production.
The last proposed adjustment reflects a continuous fluctuation in energy prices, offering a new respite in the form of lower loads.
Depending on the details, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has provided a public hearing for April 16 to examine KE’s request for a provisional negative FCA of 6.62 rupees per unit for February 2025.
Sources reveal that KE submitted the FCA petition using the provisional reference rate from March 2023, signaling a negative variation of 6.662 billion fuel cost rupees during the month in question.
KE also requested that the Nepra is considering the adjustment of up -to -wait -on fuel cost components – linked to partial load, open cycle operations, degradation curves and start -up costs – accumulated from July 2023 to February 2025.
KE claims that 13.9 billion rupees remain not adjusted, of which 7.4 billion rupees have already been canceled in the FCA decisions for November and December 2024.
The public service urged NEPRA to allow the resumption of the remaining adjustment of the negative amounts of the FCA in January and February 2025, arguing that this would avoid placing a financial burden for consumers at a later stage.
NEPRA has identified three key problems for deliberation at the next hearing on the FCA request from K-Electric.
These include whether the adjustment of negative fuel costs requested for February 2025 is justified, if Ke joined the merit prescription in the distribution of electricity of its own power plants and obtaining electricity from external sources.
In addition, he also urged deliberation on the question of whether the request for the public service to adjust updated fuel costs – coming from partial load operations, the use of the open cycle, degradation curves and start -up costs, from July 2023 to February 2025, is justified by the dominant regulatory framework.
The NEPRA invited interested stakeholders to submit written or oral comments, and the details of the KE petition, relevant rules and determinations are available on the NEPRA website.
