Nearly half of industrial consumers availed surplus electricity package in Dec-Jan<\/p>\n
ISLAMABAD: <\/p>\n
The Power Division has released data for December 2025 and January 2026 showing that industrial consumers received cumulative relief of Rs12.125 billion under the three-year long-term concessional electricity package, according to an official statement issued on Friday.<\/p>\n
The statistics show that 127,686 industrial consumers benefited from the package during the two-month period, representing 46% of the total 278,961 registered industrial consumers. Under the scheme, both small and large industries received a uniform benefit of Rs10.3 per unit on the consumption of surplus electricity. During December and January, a total of 1,176 million units of electricity were sold to industries under the surplus package, accounting for 23.8% of total industrial electricity sales in the two months. In December alone, 557 million units were sold under the scheme, representing 23% of industrial units sold that month. This translated into financial relief of Rs5.743 billion, with 125,829 consumers, or 45% of industrial users, benefiting from the package.<\/p>\n
In January 2026, industries consumed 619 million units under the surplus arrangement, accounting for 24.5% of total industrial electricity sales. The resulting financial relief amounted to Rs6.382 billion, while the number of benefiting industrial consumers rose to 127,686.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly half of industrial consumers availed surplus electricity package in Dec-Jan ISLAMABAD: The Power Division has released data…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164,10320],"class_list":["post-495323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-latest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}