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Electricity Tariff should be Collected by Ascertaining Amount of Electricity Consumption: CIAA

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Electricity Tariff should be Collected by Ascertaining Amount of Electricity Consumption: CIAA
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August 21: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has said that the electricity tariff should be collected by ensuring the quantity of electricity consumed by the industries supplied through dedicated feeders and trunk lines before the end of load shedding. The CIAA has suggested that the data of Time of Day (TOD) meter should be primary basis for this.

Sending a three-point letter to the Ministry of Energy, the Electricity Regulatory Commission and the Nepal Electricity Authority regarding the dedicated and trunk line tariff dispute, the authority has suggested not to impose additional burden on the industrialists in the name of tariff.

The industrialists approached the CIAA after the cabinet endorsed a report on the dedicated and trunk line submitted by a high level committee coordinated by Secretary at the Ministry of Energy, Dinesh Ghimire. The authority had sent letter to these bodies last week on the basis of the request by the industrialists.

According to the letter, the authority should determine the electricity tariff only after ascertaining whether the electricity has been used for dedicated feeders and trunk lines after the load shedding ended.

The authority has suggested taking the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Shivam Cement as precedence for other industries as well.

The court has directed the government not to charge Shivam Cement any tariff for dedicated and trunk line from mid July 2015 to January 13, 2016.

Load shedding in the industrial sector had come to an end on May 14, 2018. However, the NEA has been sending dedicated and trunk line electricity tariff bills to the industries even after that. Since then, the dispute has become more complicated.

 

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