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General Purpose

Supply of electricity to be used in shops, offices, banks, warehouses, public buildings, hospitals, educational establishments, places of entertainment and other premises not covered under any other tariffs.

Customer Category GP-1

This rate shall apply to supplies at each individual point of supply delivered and metered at 400/230 Volt nominal and where the contract demand is less than or equal to 42 kVA.

Table 8- Tariff Applicable for General-1 Customers

Consumption per month (kWh)	Energy Charge (LKR/kWh)	Fixed Charge (LKR/month)	Maximum Demand Charge per month (LKR/kVA)
<301	18.30	240.00	–
>300	22.85	240.00	–

Customer Category GP-2

This rate shall apply to supplies at each individual point of supply delivered and metered at 400/230 Volt nominal and where the contract demand exceeds 42kVA.

Table 9- Tariff Applicable for General-2 Customers

Time Intervals	Energy Charge (LKR/kWh)	Fixed Charge (LKR/month)	Maximum Demand Charge per month (LKR/kVA)
Peak (18.30-22.30)	26.60	3,000.00	1,100.00
Day (5.30-18.30)	21.80
Off-peak (22.30-05.30)	15.40

Customer Category GP-3
This rate shall apply to supplies at each individual point of supply delivered and metered at 11,000 Volt nominal and above.

Table 10- Tariff Applicable for General-3 Customers

Time Intervals	Energy Charge (LKR/kWh)	Fixed Charge (LKR/month)	Maximum Demand Charge per month (LKR/kVA)
Peak (18.30-22.30)	25.50	3,000.00	1,000.00
Day (5.30-18.30)	20.70
Off-peak (22.30-05.30)	14.35

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Hotel Purpose

Supply of electricity used for hotels approved by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority.

Customer Category H-1

This rate shall apply to supplies at each individual point of supply delivered and metered at 400/230 Volt nominal and where the contract demand is less than or equal to 42 kVA.

Table 5- Tariff Applicable for Hotel-1 Customers

Energy Charge (LKR/kWh)	Fixed Charge (LKR/month)	Maximum Demand Charge per month (LKR/kVA)
21.50	600	–

Customer Category H-2

This rate shall apply to supplies at each individual point of supply delivered and metered at 400/230 Volt nominal and where the contract demand exceeds 42kVA.

Table 6- Tariff Applicable for Hotel-2 Customers

Time Intervals	Energy Charge (LKR/kWh)	Fixed Charge (LKR/month)	Maximum Demand Charge per month (LKR/kVA)
Peak (18.30-22.30)	23.50	3,000.00	1,100.00
Day (5.30-18.30)	14.65
Off-peak (22.30-05.30)	9.80

Customer Category H-3
This rate shall apply to supplies at each individual point of supply delivered and metered at 11,000 Volt nominal and above.

Table 7- Tariff Applicable for Hotel-3 Customers

Time Intervals	Energy Charge (LKR/kWh)	Fixed Charge (LKR/month)	Maximum Demand Charge per month (LKR/kVA)
Peak (18.30-22.30)	22.50	3,000.00	1,000.00
Day (5.30-18.30)	13.70
Off-peak (22.30-05.30)	8.80

Public Consultation Documents on Setting of Tariff for the period 2011-2015

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Governmrnt Purpose

Supply of electricity to be used in schools, hospitals, vocational training institutions, and universities, which are fully owned by the Government and funded through the national budget and provide their services free of charge to the general public. These customers shall be of categories GP-1, GP-2 or GP-3. Existing and new customers of the type described above may make an application in writing to the relevant distribution licensee to obtain the government Category.

Customer Category GV-1
This rate shall apply to supplies at each individual point of supply delivered and metered at 400/230 Volt nominal and where the contract demand is less than or equal to 42 kVA.

Table 11- Tariff Applicable for Government-1 Customers

Energy Charge (LKR/kWh)	Fixed Charge (LKR/month)	Maximum Demand Charge per month (LKR/kVA)
14.65	600.00	–

Customer Category GV-2
This rate shall apply to supplies at each individual point of supply delivered and metered at 400/230 Volt nominal and where the contract demand exceeds 42 kVA.

Table 12- Tariff Applicable for Government-2 Customers

Energy Charge (LKR/kWh)	Fixed Charge (LKR/month)	Maximum Demand Charge per month (LKR/kVA)
14.55	3,000.00	1,100.00

Customer Category GV-2
This rate shall apply to supplies at each individual point of supply delivered and metered at 11,000 Volt nominal and above.

Table 13- Tariff Applicable for Government-3 Customers

Energy Charge (LKR/kWh)	Fixed Charge (LKR/month)	Maximum Demand Charge per month (LKR/kVA)
14.35	3,000.00	1,000.00

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Domestic Purpose

Tariff plans for electricity usage in private residences, are as follows.

This rate applies to supply of electricity used for domestic purposes in private residences.

Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka has approved the revised tariffs based on Increasing block tariff with effect from 16th September, 2014.

If the consumption is between 0-60 kWh per month the following tariffs will be applicable

Monthly Consumption (1) kWh	Unit Charge (Rs./kWh)	Fixed Charge (Rs./month)
0-30	2.50	30.00
31-60	4.85	60.00

If the consumption is above 60 kWh per month the following tariffs will be applicable

Monthly Consumption (¹) kWh	Unit charge (Rs/kWh)	Fixed charge (Rs/month)
0-60	7.85	N/A
61-90	10.00	90.00
91-120	27.75	480.00
121-180	32.00	480.00
>180	45.00	540.00

(1) Consumption blocks are based on a 30-day billing period and the number units in a block would be prorated according to the number of dates in each billing period.

Time of Use Electricity Tariff for Domestic Consumers

The following Electricity Tariffs based on Time of Use (TOU) has been approved by the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka for all Domestic Customers with effect from 2nd May 2017. The Tariff is offered as an optional tariff to Domestic Customers and will be implemented upon request. Interested customers are kindly requested to contact their respective Area Electrical Engineer’s offices or CEB Call Centre on 1987 for details.

Time of Use (TOU)	Unit Charge (Rs./kWh)	Fixed Charge (Rs./month)
Peak (18.30-22.30)	54.00	540.00
Day (5.30-18.30)	25.00
Off-peak (22.30-05.30)	13.00

Public Consultation Documents on Setting of Tariff for the period 2011-2015

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This document is a publication of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka. Ceylon Electricity Board does not provide any clarification related to the contents of the document. The persons downloading this document are advised that for any clarifications they may require, they must contact the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka at the contact numbers given in the newspaper advertisement of the Commission on 24th of February, 2010. Ceylon Electricity Board is not responsible for the contents of the document, other than the data furnished to the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka, if so attributed to in the document.

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Religious Purpose

Customer Category R-1

This rate shall apply to supplies of electricity to,
(a) Places of public religious worship including private residences of priests where such residences are associated with or are within the place of public religious woship.
(b) Homes for aged, orphanages and homes for the handicapped, which are specifically certified by the Director of Social Services as charitable institutions, and which do not include any building used for commercial purposes.

Religious

Table 1- Tariff Applicable for Religious Customers

Consumption(¹) per month (kWh)	Energy Charge (LKR/kWh)	Fixed Charge (LKR/month)
0-30	1.90	30.00
31-90	2.80	60.00
91-120	6.75	180.00
121-180	7.50	180.00
>180	9.40	240.00

(1) Consumption blocks are based on a 30-day billing period and the number units in a block would be prorated according to the number of dates in each billing period

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