NEPRA fumes on request to increase electricity prices

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00:00 fuel adjustment. Ali Malik will tell us about this. Ali, tell us. Yes, today the July fuel

00:07 adjustment has ended in Nepra. The Central Power Purchasing Agency has submitted some

00:14 figures and some technical issues. They have also requested to get them back from Sarpene.

00:21 On which Nepra 30 expressed its dissatisfaction and they could not be satisfied with the figures.

00:28 And Chairman Nepra has instructed that whenever you come to Sarmat and want to add anything

00:33 to the fuel, you should get the right figures. They said that the wrong figures will not

00:38 be added to the fuel at Sarpene. Nepra has not agreed to any additional fuel today.

00:43 And has said that when the figures are presented in detail, we will agree to the additional

00:48 prices. Before that, it was also said in Sarmat that coal is available in the country, but

00:53 despite that, it is not being produced at a cheap price. Because the prices of coal have

00:58 decreased, while the coal we have purchased for power plants is expensive. And if electricity

01:03 is made, it will have to be made at the same rate and expensive electricity will be generated.

01:07 In addition, it was said from the side of NPDC that there is a problem with transmission

01:12 since 2017, due to which the cheapest power plants could not be run. Due to just one technical

01:17 issue, expensive power plants are running, on which Nepra has expressed dissatisfaction

01:22 and has said that there is a problem for 5-6 years and because of that we run expensive

01:28 plants every month instead of cheap plants. So in this regard, NPDC has said that we have

01:33 written to the ministry, but even now Nepra has expressed doubts and has requested a report

01:38 on the matter of NPDC. And it was said that NPDC should provide a complete detailed report

01:43 on this matter. Today, member Nepra, who is the chief of staff, has said that in 5 years

01:47 NPDC has lost 137 towers of electricity, which has been damaged several times in the power

01:52 plant. He said that this does not happen in any country in the world. So in this regard,

01:57 Nepra has requested a detailed report from NPDC, while the request for an increase in

02:02 the price of electricity from the CPBA has not been made. And it has been said that after

02:07 a detailed analysis of the number of towers, the authority will decide.

02:12 Thank you very much, Ali.

02:14 Thank you.