Tag: Tariff

Power tariff doubled in 3 years; outages continue

LAHORE
The electricity prices have doubled and the television fees collected through electricity bills have increased by 50 percent since the menace of load shedding started in December 2007 and the present government assumed power in March 2008, while consumers have been warned of more tariff hikes, Pakistan Today has learnt.
When load shedding started, consumers were enjoying low prices of electricity and subsidies were also provided on certain tariffs. Commercial and

NEPRA to rationalise wind energy tariff

ISLAMABAD: The government is probable to introduce an upfront tariff for wind energy projects, instead of the prevalent system of reverse tariff calculation by the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA).
Official sources from the Ministry of Water and Power disclosed that a proposal for introduction of feed-in-tariff in the power sector was considered and later initial implementation was decided in the wind power sector. Currently, investors need to design a