{"id":24119,"date":"2026-10-20T17:50:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=24119"},"modified":"2026-10-20T17:50:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:50:31","slug":"new-electricity-tariff-could-reach-rs27-31-per-unit-from-january-1-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=24119","title":{"rendered":"New Electricity Tariff Could Reach Rs27.31 per Unit from January 1, 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pakistan\u2019s new electricity tariff could stand at Rs27.31 per unit from January 1, 2027.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The electricity purchase price in Pakistan could rise to Rs27.309 per kilowatt-hour, or unit, in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Under its base-case estimate for the upcoming tariff review, the Central Power Purchasing Agency has projected total electricity purchase costs of Rs3.55 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>These estimates form part of the tariff review process for consumers of the former WAPDA electricity distribution companies. The revised rates are expected to take effect on January 1, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The process will determine the revised reference cost used to calculate electricity rates for the new period. Consumer tariffs will then be set on that basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s new electricity tariff could stand at Rs27.31 per unit from January 1, 2027. The electricity purchase price in Pakistan could rise to Rs27.309 per kilowatt-hour, or unit, in 2027. Under its base-case estimate for the upcoming tariff review, the Central Power Purchasing Agency has projected total electricity purchase costs of Rs3.55 trillion. These estimates [&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":[12437,12283,7742,2638,4418,62],"class_list":["post-24119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-central-power-purchasing-agency","tag-electricity-distribution-companies","tag-electricity-prices","tag-electricity-tariff","tag-energy","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119","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=24119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24120,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119\/revisions\/24120"}],"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=24119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}