Economic Coordination Committee has approved Power Division's proposal regarding winter demand initiative for the industrial, domestic, commercial and general services consumers of DISCOs and K-Electric.

The decision was taken at the ECC meeting held in Islamabad today with Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb in the chair.  

The initiative aims at ensuring optimum use of system generation capacity besides reducing gas demand due to shifting of favourabe demand towards electricity.

Under the initiative, a tariff of 26.07 rupees shall be charged to all eligible consumers on the respective incremental consumption, above the benchmark consumption in the corresponding months. The initiative shall remain applicable for a three-month billing period effective from December to February.