UPPCL tariff 2026-27: home and shop rates, fixed charge and fuel surcharge

UPPCL domestic tariff 2026-27 (LMV-1)

Homes are billed under LMV-1. Your rate depends on whether your supply is on the rural schedule or not (city homes and everyone else), and on your units for the month. Your load, in kW, is the power your connection is approved for, and the fixed charge is charged on it.

Applying for a new connection? See what each load costs to connect in Jhatpat connection charges.

Lifeline homes: a 1 kW connection using up to 100 units in a month pays ₹3.00 a unit and ₹50 a kW, in town or village. If it uses more than 1,200 units in a financial year, it moves to the normal rates the next year. Housing societies on one bulk connection of 50 kW or more, with at least 70% of the load for homes, pay ₹7.00 a unit and ₹110 a kW.

The order gives the rates for each band of units. PVVNL's official calculator charges every unit at the rate of the band the month reaches, so 200 units in a city home are all at ₹6.00. The UPPCL bill calculator works out your bill this way, line by line, and also shows it worked band by band.

UPERC Tariff Order for the State Discoms, 2 Jul 2026 (FY 2026-27), LMV-1 rate schedule, pages 417 to 422, including bulk supply. UPPCL public notice of the FY 2026-27 tariff. Every unit at the band's rate: PVVNL bill calculator, run on 31 Oct 2026.

Did UPPCL increase rates in 2026?

No. In the 2 July 2026 order UPERC wrote that, as the power companies had built up a surplus, "no Tariff hike is required for FY 2026-27". The rates in UPPCL's public notices for 2025-26 and 2026-27 are the same for homes and for shops.

What did change is behind the rate you pay. The order's rate for a city home before its cross subsidy adjustment (an adjusting value in the order, not shown on bills) went up from ₹6.85 to ₹7.35 a unit. The payable rate stayed at ₹5.50 to ₹6.50 because that adjustment also grew by ₹0.50 a unit in every band.

For lifeline homes and rural homes using up to 150 units, the State Government's subsidy grew.

Bills can still rise and fall each month through the fuel surcharge, below. The order says this is how the power companies recover a rise in what they pay for power. To see why your own bill moved, find your bill's month in the fuel surcharge table below.

UPERC Tariff Order for the State Discoms, 2 Jul 2026 (FY 2026-27), page 360, para 8.2.7 and 8.2.8; page 369, para 9.1.5; cross subsidy adjustment not shown on bills, pages 419 and 422. UPPCL public notice of the FY 2026-27 tariff and UPPCL public notice of the FY 2025-26 tariff: the "tariff excluding subsidy" and "tariff payable" columns.

From when do the 2026-27 rates apply?

The order says the rates apply seven days after they are published in the newspapers. UPPCL put the notice on its website on 6 July 2026, but it does not print the date it appeared in the papers. For homes and shops the date makes no difference to the amount, because the rates are the same as the year before.

UPERC Tariff Order for the State Discoms, 2 Jul 2026 (FY 2026-27), page 407, para 12.1.2; UPPCL public notice of the FY 2026-27 tariff, last line.

UPPCL fuel surcharge (FPPAS) every month

Each month UPPCL works out what it paid for power three months earlier against what the tariff order allowed, and adds or takes off the difference as a percentage of your energy and fixed charges. It is capped at 10% either way.

Here is every month since April 2025, with UPPCL's letter for each. The letters are scanned images, so we read each one on the letter itself.

The biggest cut was -9.17% for November 2026; the surcharge reached the 10% cap for June 2026 and February 2026.

On a 2 kW city home using 200 units, the November 2026 surcharge of -9.17% changes the bill from ₹1,491 to ₹1,361. This takes the 5% duty on the energy and fixed charges only, as PVVNL's calculator does; if duty were also charged on the surcharge, the bill would be ₹1,354. How the surcharge sits on a bill, line by line, is in the UPPCL bill calculator.

To see your own bill with its surcharge, use UPPCL bill check. Bill jumped after a smart meter? UPPCL smart meter lists the usual reasons.

Each month's letter, linked in the table, listed on the UPPCL tariff page. Rule: UPERC (Multi Year Tariff for Distribution) Regulations, 2025, regulation 16.1: on the fixed and energy charges, three months after the power was bought, capped at 10% unless the Commission sets another limit.

UPPCL commercial tariff 2026-27 (LMV-2) for shops and offices

LMV-2 covers shops, hotels, restaurants, showrooms, banks, coaching centres, private diagnostic centres and similar places. In towns, the rates depend on your load:

The minimum charge means a shop pays at least that much for its load in a month, even if it used little power. Duty, the fuel surcharge and other charges are added to whichever is higher. Shops on the rural schedule pay ₹5.50 a unit and ₹110 a kW a month.

To find your column, check whether your load is 4 kW or less, or above 4 kW.

UPERC Tariff Order for the State Discoms, 2 Jul 2026 (FY 2026-27), LMV-2 rate schedule, pages 423 and 424; minimum charge, pages 414 and 415, clause 17.

Rates for other connections

The main low tension rates for other kinds of supply, as UPPCL published them for 2026-27:

Small and medium power (LMV-6) not on the rural schedule pays 15% more or less at set hours of the day, and public EV chargers 20% less from 9 am to 4 pm.

Factories and other industrial users of 75 kW and above are on the HV-2 tariff. Shops, offices and institutions of 75 kW and above that take supply at 11 kV or above are on HV-1. Both are high tension (HV) tariffs, with their own rate schedules in the order.

UPPCL public notice of the FY 2026-27 tariff. Who is on HV-1 and HV-2: UPERC Tariff Order for the State Discoms, 2 Jul 2026 (FY 2026-27), pages 441 and 445.

Electricity duty, meter rent and other charges

• Electricity duty: PVVNL's official calculator charges a city home 5% of the energy and fixed charges, and a shop 7.5%. It is a State levy, set outside the tariff order, and we have not found the notification itself.
• Meter rent: the LMV-1 rate schedule (pages 417 to 422) lists none, and PVVNL's calculator adds none.
• Paying on time: 1% off the energy and fixed charges if you pay by the due date with no arrears (page 414).
• Paying late: 1.25% a month on the unpaid amount for the first three months, then 2% a month (page 410).
• Part of a kW: charged as a whole kW, so 2.5 kW pays for 3 kW (page 408).

UPERC Tariff Order for the State Discoms, 2 Jul 2026 (FY 2026-27), pages 408, 410, 414 and 417 to 422; PVVNL bill calculator, run on 31 Oct 2026.

Which companies use this tariff

One rate schedule covers all five state-owned power companies: Pashchimanchal (PVVNL), Madhyanchal (MVVNL), Dakshinanchal (DVVNL), Purvanchal (PUVVNL) and KESCo in Kanpur. Noida Power Company (NPCL) in Greater Noida is a private power company with its own tariff order.

UPERC Tariff Order for the State Discoms, 2 Jul 2026 (FY 2026-27), page 408, "applicable for DVVNL, MVVNL, PVVNL, PUVVNL and KESCO". Every tariff order: UPERC tariff orders list.

What some pages say, and what the orders say

Claims seen on websites and in search results in October 2026, summarised in our words.

Questions people ask

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Sources

1. UPERC Tariff Order for the State Discoms, 2 Jul 2026 (FY 2026-27). Rate schedule pages 408 to 424; when the tariff applies, page 407; "no Tariff hike", page 360.
2. UPPCL public notice of the FY 2026-27 tariff. Every category's rates for 2026-27, with the subsidy columns.
3. UPPCL public notice of the FY 2025-26 tariff. The approved rates for 2025-26, for comparison: the same payable LMV-1 and LMV-2 rates.
4. UPPCL's 20 fuel surcharge letters, April 2025 to November 2026, each linked in the table above, from the UPPCL tariff page.
5. UPERC (Multi Year Tariff for Distribution) Regulations, 2025. Regulation 16: FPPAS billed on RATE (fixed and energy charges), capped at plus or minus 10% a month unless the Commission sets another ceiling.
6. PVVNL bill calculator, run on 31 Oct 2026 for an LMV-1 home and an LMV-2 shop. Official calculator of Pashchimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam: energy, fixed charge and electricity duty for a home, and electricity duty for a shop.
7. UPERC tariff orders list.

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