ISLAMABAD: The National Electric
power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Thursday while rejecting the
demand of K-Electric to increase its
power tariff by 14.3 paisa, concluded that it shall decrease its
tariff for the consumers on the basis of K-Electric own declining generation cost and taking around 650 Megawatts from National Transmission and Dis***** Company (NTDC) for years at lower price.
Chairman
Nepra Brig (R) Tariq Saddozi who presided over the authority’s public hearing Thursday regarding fuel charges adjustment for K-E for month of May expressed his anger and serious concern over the company’s **n-serious and inefficient performance as Karachi is facing severe
power crisis but it did **thing.
He said that the for the last 30 hours almost every part of the city is without power, despite Nepra’s continuous warnings to the company to create more generation capacity and improve its transmission and distribution system.
A senior official of the authority told The News that the K-Electric is still enjoying the 600MWs which it takes from the national grid while **t fully exploiting its available generation capacity despite during its privatisation, it had agreed to generate its own
power to feed Karachi, but, unfortunately, still it has made ** progress on it and is depending on this borrowed power.
The official said, “The K-Electric
demand of
increasing tariff is unjustified, however the authority will soon complete its working on its generation cost and borrowed electricity and will decided to lower the
tariff for the month of May 2016.” He said that the authority may decline the
tariff for month of May 2016 by 8 paisa/unit.
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