PEPCO announces day and night tariff

LAHORE: PEPCO announced day and night electricity tariffs for domestic power consumers, despite its earlier denial, on Friday.

PEPCO announced that one unit will cost Rs11.87 during peak hours while seven to eight rupees will be charged for the same unit during daytime.

The peak hours from March to May are from 6pm to 9pm, from June to August 7pm to 11pm, and September to November from 6pm to 10pm.

Inflation hit consumers strongly reacted to the new power tariff structure that has been introduced by PEPCO with the approval of NEPRA.