Clarifying the new fixed charges introduced for residential and commercial consumers and how they are calculated based on your load.
If you looked at your Mepco bill lately you probably saw something Fixed Charges. The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority, which is NEPRA made changes to the way electricity costs are figured out. Now everyone in Pakistan has to pay capacity charges, which is a pretty big deal. This changes everything about how Mepco billsre calculated. The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority or NEPRA is, in charge of this. Mepco bills are going to be different because of these Fixed Charges.
If you recently checked your Mepco bill and saw a sudden, unexplainable spike in exactly the same season as last year, you are not alone. NEPRA's recent decisions have introduced tiered "Fixed Charges" to residential bills, independent of your actual power consumption.
These are mandatory monthly capacity charges factored into your Mepco bill total based on your historical electricity usage tier. They cannot be avoided simply by turning off appliances.
These charges are separate from your per-unit consumption cost determined by official tariff rates. This is essentially a baseline rent to secure your connection to the grid's capacity.
The only effective way to prevent these fixed charges from inflating your future Mepco bill is strict load management. If you consistently stay below 300 units by optimizing your AC / appliance usage, no fixed charges are applied. For users with large homes, relying on solar power to suppress grid-drawn units below the 300 tier is highly recommended before gross metering laws take effect.
Currently, the overall cost to produce and maintain electricity infrastructure consists of 72% fixed capacity costs and 28% variable generation costs. Previously, tariffs relied too heavily on variable consumption to recover these fixed layout costs. NEPRA introduced these strict fixed charges to guarantee predictable revenue to sustain the grid, regardless of seasonal drops in consumer power usage.