Sindh High court suspends Nepra orders on K-Electric tariff review
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) has suspended the impugned notifications and orders of the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority’s (Nepra) appellate tribunal regarding the review of K-Electric’s multi-year tariff. A single-judge bench of the SHC, headed by Justice Mohammad Abdur Rahman, also issued notices to the Power Division, Nepra and others, as well as the deputy attorney general,…
The Sindh High Court (SHC) has temporarily halted the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority’s (Nepra) orders concerning the review of K-Electric’s multi-year tariff. A solitary-judge panel, led by Justice Mohammad Abdur Rahman, has issued notices to the Power Division, Nepra, others, and the deputy attorney general, set to convene on October 15.
The utility has contested the September 2026 and October 2025 Nepra tribunal decisions, regarding KE’s appeals against Nepra’s October 2025 tariff review determinations and the resulting Nepra and Ministry of Energy notifications.
Ayan Memon, KE’s counsel, contended that the tariff, established by Nepra, was limited to a seven-year period spanning 2024 to 2030, encompassing generation, distribution, and transmission. He pointed out that, despite the subsequent filings of review petitions, Nepra deemed them inadmissible, asserting its prerogative to "suo motu powers" to reassess and alter each separate tariff determination previously established.
Memon argued that the tariff determinations had been redetermined rather than reviewed, contravening a Supreme Court ruling, as information could not be derived from external parties. Additionally, he contended that the decision shifted the entire subsidy burden to KE, subsequently passed onto consumers via fuel adjustment. Memon emphasized that Nepra’s right to review did not equate to a right to redetermine the tariff and that determining the tariff based on criteria set by the power regulator and appellate tribunal exceeded their jurisdiction.
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