Watt-a-shock: Goa power dept proposes tariff hikes for 3 consecutive years

Panaji: The Goa electricity department has proposed a hike in power tariff of 5.95% across all categories of consumers for the financial year 2025-26. This has been submitted to the Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission that regulates the power sector in Goa for its approval.
The electricity department has also proposed a tariff hike for the next two financial years. — for 2026-27, it proposed a hike of 5.64% and for 2027-28, 4.88%.
The JERC has asked the public to submit objections and suggestions to the tariff petition over the next 21 days, prior to the public hearing, which is scheduled for May 9 at Institute Menezes Braganza Hall, here.
For 2025-26, the state power department proposed a hike in fixed charges from Rs 20/kW per month to Rs 20.60 for low tension domestic consumers.
For energy charges for the low tension domestic consumers, the department proposed a hike in tariff from Rs 1.90 per kWh to Rs 1.96 for consumption up to 100 units, from Rs 2.80 per kWh to Rs 2.91 per kWh for 101-200 units, and from Rs 3.70 to Rs 3.89 for consumption between 201-300 units.
For higher slabs, the hike proposed is more. For consumption between 301 to 400 units, the hike proposed is from Rs 4.90 to Rs 5.15 per kWh, and for above 400 units, the department has proposed to hike it from Rs 5.80 to Rs 6.15 per kWh.
The department has also proposed hikes in fixed monthly and energy charges for high tension domestic category, low and high tension commercial categories, low and high tension industrial categories, including hotel industries.
Hikes have also been proposed for agricultural low and high-tension categories, public lighting, military engineering and defence establishment categories, hoarding and signboard categories among others.
This is the fourth consecutive hike proposed by the electricity department since 2022-23.