ISLAMABAD: The government on Thursday said that it operated furnace oil-based power plants at Rs33 per unit fuel cost in October in ‘good faith’ instead of Rs21 per unit unutilised LNG-based plant because “of lower LNG allocation”.

At a public hearing arranged by the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra), a Power Division team, led by Central Power Purchasing Agency (CPPA) Chief Executive Officer Rehan Akhtar, confirmed that net-metered consumers were reducing the average fuel costs of the grid.

“The units produced by Distribution companies (Discos) from net-metering consumers have zero fuel cost. Therefore, the monthly FCA is reduced due to net metering units,” a presentation to the regulator showed, with 574 million units purchased by Discos.

It was also reported that K-Electric’s power drawl from........

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