Meter Rent on your electricity bill
In short. A small fixed monthly charge for the meter hardware itself, unrelated to how much electricity you used.
Where to find it on your bill
Charges section, usually a flat rupee figure that doesn't change month to month.
Like the TV fee, meter rent doesn't scale with consumption — it's a fixed line tied to owning a connection at all. The rate can differ by meter type (a standard single-phase meter versus a three-phase or TOU meter with extra hardware).
More taxes, duties & surcharges fields
- FPA (Fuel Price Adjustment) — A per-unit surcharge or refund NEPRA approves monthly to reconcile actual fuel costs with the reference cost built into tariffs — it can be positive or negative, and it's identical for every consumer in a tariff category regardless of DISCO.
- GST — Federal General Sales Tax applied to the energy charge plus FPA and surcharges — a percentage, not a fixed amount, so it moves with everything above it on the bill.
- Electricity Duty (ED) — A provincial government levy, typically a small percentage of the base tariff, collected by the DISCO on the province's behalf.
- TV Fee — A fixed monthly fee collected on behalf of Pakistan Television Corporation, charged regardless of whether the household owns a television.
- N.J. (Neelum-Jhelum) Surcharge — A per-unit surcharge funding the Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project's financing, applied to most consumer categories nationwide.