200-unit electricity guard

Why 200 units is a cliff and not a step

A domestic connection in Pakistan that has stayed at or under 200 units a month for six consecutive months is a protected consumer and pays subsidised per-unit rates. Cross 200 in a single month and that status goes.

The part that catches people is what happens next. The status does not return when consumption drops back under 200. The connection is billed at unprotected rates for six months before it can qualify again. So one unusually hot month does not cost you the price of a few extra units. It changes the rate on a whole bill, and then on five more.

That is the entire reason to watch the meter mid-month rather than open the bill at the end of it. By the time the bill arrives there is nothing to do.

What to read off your own bill

The tool needs three things, and all three are in front of you already:

• Units used so far. Today’s meter reading, minus the reading printed on your last bill.
• The last reading date. When the meter was last read, also on the bill.
• The next reading date. Printed on the bill as the date your next reading is due.

From those it works out how far into the cycle you are, the pace you have been using at, where that pace lands by the reading date, and the daily average that would put you on 200 exactly.

The number worth acting on

It is not the projection. It is the line that says stay under by averaging so many units a day. That figure is the units you have left divided by the days you have left, and it is the only one you can do anything about. If it is higher than your pace so far, the month is comfortable. If it is lower, something has to come off: the second air conditioner, the water pump running longer than it needs to, the geyser left on.

If the tool says you are already over 200, it says so plainly and stops offering a daily target. There is no average that undoes a reading that has already happened, and a tool suggesting one would be arithmetic pretending to be advice.

What this page does not do

It does not calculate your bill, and it does not ship a tariff. A Pakistani electricity bill is units multiplied by a slab rate, plus fixed monthly charges, fuel price adjustment, quarterly tariff adjustment, a TV fee, GST and sometimes arrears. NEPRA adjusts several of those on a schedule, and fixed monthly charges were added to domestic bills in February 2026. Any rate written into this page would be out of date within a quarter and would look authoritative the whole time.

So the optional cost comparison at the bottom uses two rates you type in from your own bill, and does one multiplication with each. It is a comparison between two rates, not a bill, and the page says so where the figure appears.

It does not know your billing history. Protected status depends on the last six months, which only your distribution company can see. This tool works on the month in front of you.