{"id":22459,"date":"2026-06-29T15:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22459"},"modified":"2026-06-29T15:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:30:12","slug":"electricity-price-hike-likely-across-pakistan-including-karachi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22459","title":{"rendered":"Electricity Price Hike Likely Across Pakistan, Including Karachi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Electricity consumers across Pakistan, including Karachi, may face higher power tariffs after the Central Power Purchasing Agency (CPPA) submitted a request for an increase in electricity prices.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The CPPA has asked the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) to approve an increase of <strong>Rs0.82 per unit<\/strong> under the monthly fuel price adjustment mechanism for May.<\/p>\n<p>NEPRA is scheduled to hold a public hearing on the request tomorrow before making a final decision.<\/p>\n<p>According to the application, higher fuel generation costs during May have led to an increase in the overall cost of electricity production, prompting the proposed tariff adjustment.<\/p>\n<p>If approved, the increase could place an additional financial burden of nearly <strong>Rs12 billion<\/strong> on electricity consumers across the country.<\/p>\n<p>NEPRA will review the technical details and hear the views of relevant stakeholders before announcing its final verdict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity consumers across Pakistan, including Karachi, may face higher power tariffs after the Central Power Purchasing Agency (CPPA) submitted a request for an increase in electricity prices. The CPPA has asked the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) to approve an increase of Rs0.82 per unit under the monthly fuel price adjustment mechanism for May. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[2262,126,1518,7742,10773,4418,6628,215,74,1025,62,7880,3635,6704],"class_list":["post-22459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-cppa","tag-electricity","tag-electricity-bills","tag-electricity-prices","tag-electricity-rates","tag-energy","tag-fuel-price-adjustment","tag-inflation","tag-karachi","tag-nepra","tag-pakistan","tag-power-consumers","tag-power-sector","tag-power-tariff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22460,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22459\/revisions\/22460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}