{"id":56855,"date":"2019-10-27T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=56855"},"modified":"2019-10-28T09:23:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T04:23:33","slug":"flat-tariff-regime-announcement-expected-electricity-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/flat-tariff-regime-announcement-expected-electricity-consumers.html","title":{"rendered":"Flat tariff regime announcement expected for electricity consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The government is expected to announce a flat tariff regime at PKR 11.97\/unit a month for domestic and commercial electricity consumers who use Time of Day (ToD) metering systems, according to the news sources.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/electricity-transmission-lines-on-the-citys-major-roads-to-be-transferred-underground.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Electricity transmission lines to be moved underground<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As per details, this facility will help the government to avoid capacity payment trap (worth PKR 849 billion) by utilising idle power projects and offering substantial relief to the masses during the four months of the winter season. Presently, the power consumers with ToD meters are billed after two power tariff regimes; one is peak hours\u2019 tariff and other for the off-peak hours.<\/p>\n<p>As per an official source, the <a href=\"zameen.com\/news\/govt-mulls-subsidised-flat-electricity-rates-for-winter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">flat tariff regime<\/a> will be enforced from November 2019 to February 2020, and a summary to this effect will be tabled before the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) next week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:<\/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>Moreover, the official stated that the industrial consumers of B1, B2 would also benefit from the flat tariff facility. The base tariff enforced by NEPRA will not be affected by this regime and neither will the revenue stream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The government is expected to announce a flat tariff regime at PKR 11.97\/unit a month for domestic and commercial electricity consumers who use Time of Day (ToD) metering systems, according to the news sources. Read: Electricity transmission lines to be moved underground As per details, this facility will help the government to avoid capacity payment trap (worth PKR 849 billion) by utilising idle power projects and offering substantial relief to the masses during the four months of the winter season. Presently, the power consumers with ToD meters are billed after two power tariff regimes; one is peak hours\u2019 tariff and other for the off-peak hours. As per an official source, the flat tariff regime will be enforced from November 2019 to February 2020, and a summary to this effect will be tabled before the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) next week. Read: Punjab govt orders immediate provision of electricity to SEZs Moreover, the official stated that the industrial consumers of B1, B2 would also benefit from the flat tariff facility. The base tariff enforced by NEPRA will not be affected by this regime and neither will the revenue stream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":14890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13635],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-56855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-flat-tariff-regime-announcement-expected-for-tod-meter-users"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Flat tariff regime announcement expected for electricity consumers - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The government is expected to announce a flat tariff regime at PKR 11.97\/unit a month for domestic and commercial electricity consumers who use\" \/>\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\/flat-tariff-regime-announcement-expected-electricity-consumers.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Flat tariff regime announcement expected for electricity consumers - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The government is expected to announce a flat tariff regime at PKR 11.97\/unit a month for domestic and commercial electricity consumers who use\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/flat-tariff-regime-announcement-expected-electricity-consumers.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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