{"id":56102,"date":"2019-10-09T13:57:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T08:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=56102"},"modified":"2019-10-09T13:57:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T08:57:36","slug":"govt-mulls-subsidised-flat-electricity-rates-for-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-mulls-subsidised-flat-electricity-rates-for-winter.html","title":{"rendered":"Govt mulls subsidised, flat electricity rates for winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The government has announced its intention to launch a flat-rate tariff scheme in November for power consumers \u2013 in anticipation of the &#8216;capacity trap&#8217; likely to accrue in the coming winter season, according to news sources.<\/p>\n<p>This step is being considered as the summer \u2018peak hours\u2019 are turning in \u2018lean hours\u2019 of winter and causing the electricity consumption to drop. This situation is rendering power companies unable to use the fuel ordered by the government for the running of power plants. The consumers, on the other hand, are left to make the capacity payments without consuming the electricity. Not to mention that gas pipelines\u2019 explosion risk, brought on by the extreme line-pack pressure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/tarbelas-power-units-produced-record-high-electricity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tarbela\u2019s power units produced record high electricity<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This announcement was made by Power Secretary Irfan Ali during a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Power. He revealed that currently 35,000 MW of electricity is available in the system, while the demand in the colder season sometimes drops to 5,000 MW. Now the government is planning to abolish the peak and off-peak hour rate system in favour of flat rates, to encourage power usage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-govt-orders-immediate-provision-of-electricity-to-sezs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Punjab govt orders immediate provision of electricity to SEZs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The secretary said that there is no load shedding on around 100 feeders of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-looking-to-privatise-49-public-companies-in-five-years.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sukkur Electric Power Company<\/a> owing to elimination of power theft. He said that Ariel Bundle Cables had been utilised for theft and leakage control in some areas and by December, the theft will be eliminated form 150 more feeders.<\/p>\n<p>The committee was informed that the solar plant is Sanjwal was making great headway but there were some wheeling issues impeding the development of the project. These concerns will be sorted out following amendments proposed to the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The government has announced its intention to launch a flat-rate tariff scheme in November for power consumers \u2013 in anticipation of the &#8216;capacity trap&#8217; likely to accrue in the coming winter season, according to news sources. This step is being considered as the summer \u2018peak hours\u2019 are turning in \u2018lean hours\u2019 of winter and causing the electricity consumption to drop. This situation is rendering power companies unable to use the fuel ordered by the government for the running of power plants. The consumers, on the other hand, are left to make the capacity payments without consuming the electricity. Not to mention that gas pipelines\u2019 explosion risk, brought on by the extreme line-pack pressure. Read:\u00a0Tarbela\u2019s power units produced record high electricity This announcement was made by Power Secretary Irfan Ali during a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Power. He revealed that currently 35,000 MW of electricity is available in the system, while the demand in the colder season sometimes drops to 5,000 MW. Now the government is planning to abolish the peak and off-peak hour rate system in favour of flat rates, to encourage power usage. Read:\u00a0Punjab govt orders immediate provision of electricity to SEZs The secretary said&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":17779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13347],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-56102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-details-ongovt-mulls-subsidised-flat-electricity-rates-for-winter"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Govt mulls subsidised, flat electricity rates for winter - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The government has announced its intention to launch a flat-rate tariff scheme in November for power consumers \u2013 in anticipation of the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-mulls-subsidised-flat-electricity-rates-for-winter.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Govt mulls subsidised, flat electricity rates for winter - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The government has announced its intention to launch a flat-rate tariff scheme in November for power consumers \u2013 in anticipation of the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-mulls-subsidised-flat-electricity-rates-for-winter.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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