{"id":7052,"date":"2026-02-24T10:09:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanaffairs.com.pk\/?p=7052"},"modified":"2026-02-24T10:09:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:09:05","slug":"record-increase-in-electricity-prices-in-terms-of-fixed-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanaffairs.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/record-increase-in-electricity-prices-in-terms-of-fixed-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Record increase in electricity prices in terms of fixed charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u00a0(Shahid Supra) The federal government has increased electricity prices by a record amount in terms of fixed charges.<\/strong><br>\u00a0Fixed charges have been imposed on domestic consumers with single and three-phase meters according to the approved load. The approved load listed on single-phase meters bills has been linked to fixed charges, and fixed charges have been imposed on bills on a per-kilowatt basis according to the approved load.<br>Protected consumers with one to one hundred units will have to pay 200 for one kilowatt load, if the approved load is two kilowatts, there will be fixed charges of Rs 400, those with one hundred and one to two hundred units will have to pay charges of Rs 600 for two kilowatts. Those with two hundred and one to three hundred units will have to pay charges of Rs 700 for two kilowatts, Rs 800 for two kilowatts from three hundred and one to four hundred units and Rs 1,000 for two kilowatts from four hundred and one to five hundred units. From 501 to 700 units, you will have to pay Rs. 1,350 for two kilowatts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fixed charges for consumers will increase according to the approved load. Fixed charges will be applicable on three-phase meters based on units and MDI. Fixed charges will be imposed on readings exceeding MDI and units. There will be fixed charges on three-phase meters up to fifty percent of the approved load<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0(Shahid Supra) The federal government has increased electricity prices by a record amount in terms of fixed charges.\u00a0Fixed charges have been imposed on domestic consumers with single and three-phase meters according to the approved load. The approved load listed on single-phase meters bills has been linked to fixed charges, and fixed charges have been imposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-load-shedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanaffairs.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanaffairs.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanaffairs.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanaffairs.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanaffairs.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanaffairs.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7054,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanaffairs.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052\/revisions\/7054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanaffairs.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanaffairs.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanaffairs.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanaffairs.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}