Unfavorable news has been announced that the price of LESCO units exported from net-metering projects will be reduced from 18 to 9 rupees per unit. This will be bad news for people who generate inexpensive electricity from solar systems and sell it to LESCO. On September 27, Nepra will decide what will happen in the […]
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LESCO has Provided 6.43 Billion Rs. Relief to Customers
LESCO: In response to the Fuel Price Adjustment, Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) gave three million users relief worth Rs6.43 billion (FPA). According to Dawn, the total of Rs6.43 billion includes Rs2.187 billion and Rs2.94 billion in relief payments made to 2.17 million and 1.12 million consumers, respectively, who used 200 and 300 units in […]
LESCO Bills: Consumers Protest against huge Taxes
LAHORE: On Friday, Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) customers protested outside the business’ headquarters in opposition to excessive charges on electricity bills. The protesters gathered in great numbers. They surrounded Lesco’s main entrance while protesting while carrying signs with slogans on them. No one was able to access or exit the corporate headquarters. Long lines […]
Senate Standing Committee Meeting on Power Senator Saifullah Abro
ISLAMABAD: Senator Saifullah Abro presided over a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Power in Old PIPS Hall at Parliament Lodges in Islamabad. The discussion about the month-by-month drop and increase in electricity bills issued by NEPRA under the pretext of fuel adjustment, which was brought up by Senator Kamran Murtaza in the House, […]
Man Arrested over Robbed of LESCO Truck
LAHORE: A LESCO truck from Poonch Road was allegedly stolen along with a fire truck, according to a suspect who was detained for fire truck theft. In accordance with a FIR filed by the assistant manager of LESCO subdivision Islamia Park, the truck was taken on July 4 after the driver had left it at […]
Lahore High Court Suspends Fuel Price Adjustment for all Consumers
LAHORE: Electricity users will feel a great deal of comfort after the Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi bench ordered the relevant authorities to suspend the fuel charges adjustment (FCA) from power prices for all consumers rather than only those consuming up to 200 units on Tuesday. Justice Jawad Hassan presided over the bench as it heard […]
3 LESCO Officers Suspended for Taking Bribe to Correct LESCO Bills
LAHORE: Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) dismissed three of its officers from duty on Friday for accepting bribes from customers to correct inflated bills. Concerning the company’s Baghbanpura (Lahore) division, complaints had been made. “It is absolutely absurd that consumers, who are already experiencing extreme financial strain as a result of inflated bills with significant […]
Outrage against FPA in Bills: Govt Relief Measure Seems too Little, too Late
LAHORE: As people stung by the killing proportion of taxes, mainly fuel price adjustment (FPA) charges for the last two months that multiplied the cost of electricity, take to the streets, the government seems to be belatedly waking up to the options that it always had but never bothered to exercise. On Wednesday, Federal Minister […]
WAPDA Clarification on Balochistan Flood Telemetry Instruments
A spokesman for WAPDA has confirmed that the news item, “One-third of telemetry instruments of WAPDA not operating,” which appeared in the Business Recorder on August 17, 2022, is not founded on facts. It is made clear that 34 of the 44 Flood Telemetric Stations—which are still within the World Bank’s Defect Liability Period—have been […]
LHC Orders: Submit LESCO Electricity Bills without Fuel Adjustment Charges (FPA)
LAHORE – The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday ordered the power consumers to pay their electricity bills without fuel adjustment charges. According to details, the high court was hearing a plea moved against a collection of fuel adjustment charges from the consumers in the electricity bills. The plaintiff had stated that the collection of […]