According to CPPA-G, in January the net delivered electricity to Discos was Rs 7,423 GWh at a cost of Rs 57 billion. Per unit of which has been calculated at Rs 7.6959 against reference fuel charge of Rs 5.7576 per unit. The main reason of increase in monthly tariff is because of far low hydel generation and gas-fired electricity in January. The generation in January was 477.6 GWh which is just 6.15 per cent of total generation.
After many months, High Speed Diesel (HSD) has also been used to generate electricity. Per unit cost of electricity produced through HSD was Rs 18.5080 per unit whereas the cost of power generation with furnace oil was Rs 13.9218 per unit. The generation cost of coal-fired electricity was Rs 6.7924 per unit, followed by gas/ RLNG at Rs 5.0783 per unit. The price of nuclear power was Rs 0.9529 per unit, electricity imported from Iran was Rs 11.5709 per unit, baggasse Rs 6.1871 per unit.
