Let's not burden the public with the coal loss - PUCSL

The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka states that it will not impose any additional costs arising from the current coal issue on electricity consumers through future electricity tariff revisions.

In a statement issued today, they indicated that when considering tariff revision proposals, only the fair costs incurred for electricity generation, transmission, and distribution would be taken into account for calculations.

The Public Utilities Commission points out that even in the most recent electricity tariff revision carried out previously, their commission did not approve additional costs related to the coal crisis or any other unreasonable expenses.

Accordingly, the Commission has unanimously decided to continuously exclude any additional costs or other unreasonable expenses arising from the coal situation from future electricity tariff revision proposals.

The Commission further emphasizes that this decision has been taken with the aim of preventing consumers from being burdened by costs deemed unreasonable in the electricity tariff setting process.