{"id":184475,"date":"2025-12-10T08:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T08:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/184475\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T08:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T08:26:08","slug":"pakistan-readies-electricity-tariff-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/184475\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Readies Electricity Tariff Hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pakistan may soon impose higher electricity tariffs as the government finalises a plan intended to eliminate the power sector\u2019s rising circular debt.<\/p>\n

As per the media reports, the Circular Debt Management Plan 2025\u201326, which outlines sweeping measures aimed at putting the power sector back on track.<\/p>\n

The document warns that circular debt, which stood at Rs1,614 billion in the last fiscal year, is now expected to climb to Rs2,348 billion.<\/p>\n

Officials attributed the Rs734 billion increase primarily to low recoveries and rising production costs, which the plan identifies as the debt\u2019s core drivers.<\/p>\n

Sources say the government has assured the IMF that upcoming electricity tariff hikes are essential steps to stop the continuous buildup of circular debt.<\/p>\n

Read More: Nepra Approves Incremental Electricity Tariff for Industry<\/a><\/p>\n

The plan sets a national mission to bring the power sector\u2019s circular debt flow down to zero, restoring financial stability and reducing reliance on subsidies.<\/p>\n

To curb production costs, the document states that expensive power plants will be shut down while prioritising cheaper generation sources where possible.<\/p>\n

It also instructs power distribution companies to reduce technical and commercial losses by improving efficiency and tightening operations to shore up revenues.<\/p>\n

The plan mandates timely recovery of arrears from K-Electric and gencos, aiming specifically to plug long-standing revenue leakages across the sector significantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pakistan may soon impose higher electricity tariffs as the government finalises a plan intended to eliminate the power…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-184475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}