ISLAMABAD: Ill-planned surplus generation capacity, low plant utilisation, high fixed costs and inefficient generation dispatch have become a permanent source of high consumer-end power tariffs, as well as a financial drain on the power sector and the federal budget, says the power regulator’s annual report. The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority’s (Nepra) Annual Report on the Performance of Power Plants in Pakistan FY2024-25 said: “Overall, the [power] sector’s high fixed costs, low u...