KATHMANDU, April 27: The Agriculture, Cooperative, and Natural Resources Committee under the House of Representatives (HoR) has directed the government to provide electricity tariff subsidies to cold storage facilities.

KATHMANDU, March 12: The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) and Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) have reached an agreement on the tariff for the electricity to be exported from Nepal.

KATHMANDU, Feb 28: Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is considering a hike in electricity tariffs ranging from 10 to 15 percent.

KATHMANDU, Jan 9: Managing Director of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) Kulman Ghising has admitted that TOD data of some industries may have been lost or misplaced.

KATHMANDU, Dec 23: The electricity supply to certain industries, persistently refusing to settle their electricity tariff dues for using dedicated and trunk lines, has been disconnected since Friday evening.

KATHMANDU, Oct 28: As the arrears of electricity tariffs to be collected from consumers are increasing, the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is preparing to speed up the work of disconnecting the power supply of such consumers.

KATHMANDU, Oct 8: Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has released a list of local authorities that have electricity tariff dues. The NEA has urged around 300 of the local governments to settle their unpaid street light electricity tariffs. There are a total of 753 local governments across the country.

KATHMANDU, Oct 19: Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has reduced the electricity tariff rate for recharging electric vehicles at the charging stations.

KATHMANDU, Oct 14: Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Barshaman Pun has said that the electricity tariff will be further reduced next year.

KATHMANDU, July 9: Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has decided to exempt late charges on electricity bills if consumers are able to clear the outstanding due by July 22.

KATHMANDU, June 18:  In a bid to end the culture of house owners charging their tenants an exorbitant amount in electricity bills, the Electricity Regulatory Commission (ERC) has enforced a rule that a house owners can charge their tenants only up to the upper ceiling of electricity tariff fixed by Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA).

KATHMANDU, May 25: As the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has stepped up efforts to revise the electricity tariff rates stating that the new rates will reduce the cost burden on household consumers, the private sector has criticized the new rates arguing that they will adversely affect the growth of the industrial sector.

KATHMANDU, April 18 Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Barsha Man Pun has said that no extra charges will be levied on consumers if they are able to settle electricity tariff bill till May 20.

KATHMANDU, Jan 31: Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is preparing to revise electricity tariff for household consumers to increase electricity consumption.

DHARAN, Jan 4: BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS) has started investigation after an officer of its electrical engineering department allegedly collected electricity tariff from the businesses on the premises of the institute.

NEA mulls 15% power tariff hike

November 14, 2019 07:35 am

KATHMANDU, Nov 14: Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is mulling a hike in electricity tariff at a time when the government is trying to reduce fuel imports and check the ever-widening trade deficit through increased production and use of electricity.

KATHMANDU, Nov 7: The Electricity Regulatory Commission has drafted a directive to streamline fixing of electricity tariff by Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), amid ongoing scuffle between the state-owned power utility and industrialists on the rationale of paying premium charge dues on commercial use of electricity.