Islamabad: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has completed the CPPA hearing, the decision of which will be issued later.
The authority was not satisfied with the data presented by the CPPA. Chairman Nepra directed the CPPA to bring correct statistics here.
Chairman Nepra said that the burden of wrong statistics will not be put on electricity consumers, why the investment plan approved by Nepra has not been implemented, the technical problems will be looked at separately by the authority, but the debris of technical problems will not fall on the public. will give
The authority clarified that Nepra will review the data after which a decision will be taken.
Earlier, NEPRA held a hearing under the chairmanship of Chairman Waseem Mukhtar. In the context of monthly fuel price adjustment, electricity was requested to be increased by Rs 2 7 paise, but later CPPA reduced the increase of Rs 2 7 paise to Rs 1 58 paise.
According to CPP officials, electricity sales increased in July compared to last year and after revision of reference cost, the price decreased compared to last year. Last month’s FCA was an increase of 1 rupee 81 paise, while in this month FCA has decreased by 23 paisa compared to last month.
The Nepra Authority has raised questions on the tariff working of CPPA on coal-fired power plants. Chairman NEPRA said that the difference between the working of NEPRA and the tariff of CPA should be removed, the prices of coal have fallen yet why the tariff is high.
Officials NPCC said that due to overloading of the system, expensive power plants with expensive furnace oil have to be run. In July alone, running expensive plants to maintain the system caused an additional burden of Rs 1.5 billion.
The NEPRA authority said that the consumers are not responsible for the overloading of the system. Nepra took notice of the violation of merit order by the power plants and sought an explanation from NPCC and NTDC.
The authority said that 38 towers have fallen in the last five years and the tower fall is the failure of NTDC, what steps have been taken to make the system safe.
Member Nepra Muthar Niaz Rana said that coal prices have reduced globally, we are not generating electricity because we have expensive coal? Since 2017 there has been a technical problem due to which we are running expensive power plants, because of this problem we are running expensive plants every month.
Nepra has sought a detailed report from NTDC on the matter.
NTDC officials in their briefing attributed the tower collapse and power blackout to climate change. He said that due to climate change, towers are falling and NTDC is facing various problems, LCs are not open and new equipment is not coming, despite this we are laying transmission lines in different areas.
MDNTDC said that most cases of tower collapse and theft are reported in Sindh Jamshoro, incidents of theft of tower sports (support) also occur in the same area. We have stopped 90% of the theft cases and are creating a force of local people to stop theft from Sindh, will keep local people on night patrolling.
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