NEPRA adjourns public hearing into CPPA-G petition till Tuesday

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MG News | October 30, 2019 at 05:15 PM GMT+05:00

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October 30, 2019: National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) Wednesday adjourned a public hearing into the petition filed by Central Power Purchase Agency Guarantee Limited (CPPA-G) for power tariff hike under monthly fuel adjustment till Tuesday.

The power regulator also sought an explanation from CPPA-G for out of merit running expansive power plants during September.

The regulator would now hold public hearing into the price hike in tariff on Tuesday.

In the petition, CPPA-G had sought Rs 2.97 per unit increase in power tariff for the month of September under monthly fuel adjustment formula.

In a petition filed with NEPRA, the CPPA-G on behalf of ex-WAPDA distribution companies maintained that it had charged consumers a reference tariff of

Rs 2.8410/kWh against the actual fuel cost of Rs 5.8136/kWh during the said period.

The CPPA in its petition said the total energy from all sources remained at 13,621.35 Gwh in September and the total cost was calculated to Rs 70.231 billion with an average per unit fuel cost of Rs 5.156 per unit.

Some 37.09 per cent of electricity was generated from hydel, 16.39 per cent from coal, 21.06 per cent from RLNG, 11.85 per cent from local gas, six per cent from furnace oil, wind 1.10 per cent and nuclear 5.50 per cent during the said period.

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