Hiked power tariff aside, the average Malayali will have to pay a thermal fuel surcharge on electricity bills from this week onwards.
The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) has started collecting 20 paise per unit as the fuel surcharge on the bi-monthly bills in a bid to recover the `77.22-crore spent additionally on power purchases between October and December 2011.
The surcharge will be collected for three months from October 1 or until `77.22 crore is collected, whichever is first.
According to an order dated September 29, the KSEB plans to exempt domestic consumers using up to 120 units a month from the ambit of the surcharge.
But the Kerala State Electricity Regulatory Commission had in May set a different criteria for exemption; that all the consumers except those using less than 20 units a month or having a connected load of 500 Watts are to pay the surcharge.
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