Noida electricity tariff explained (2026)

A Noida home pays ₹5.50 (0–150 units), ₹6.00 (151–300), ₹6.50 (301–500) and ₹7.00 (above 500) per unit, plus a fixed charge of ₹110 per kW per month of sanctioned load. Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) left these unchanged for FY 2026-27. A 300-unit month on a 2 kW connection comes to about ₹1,945, which is ₹6.48 per unit before duty, and a 2 kW rooftop system takes about two-thirds of that off.

Not yet official. Taken from secondary summaries of the FY 2026-27 UPERC order; the order itself was not fetched.

This guide sets out the slabs, the fixed charge, the difference between PVVNL and NPCL, and a worked bill before and after solar. Every tariff figure here comes from secondary summaries of the UPERC order and is marked as such; the order itself has not been fetched.

The slabs: four steps, billed telescopically

The urban domestic schedule has four energy-charge slabs. They are telescopic, which means a household is not billed at one rate for everything. The first 150 units are charged at the lowest rate, the next 150 at the second, the next 200 at the third, and everything past 500 at the top rate. A 320-unit month is therefore not 320 units at the third rate; it is 150 at the first, 150 at the second and 20 at the third.

Units in the month	Rate per unit
0 to 150	₹5.50
151 to 300	₹6.00
301 to 500	₹6.50
above 500	₹7.00

The ladder is short. The top rate is about a quarter above the bottom one, so a Noida bill grows roughly in step with consumption. Delhi's ladder, explained on the Delhi tariff page, starts far lower and climbs far steeper, which is why a Noida home pays more than a Delhi home for a modest winter month and about the same for a heavy summer one. The summer air-conditioning guide works through that comparison at 300 and 800 units.

The fixed charge, and why the sanctioned load matters

On top of the energy charge sits a fixed charge of ₹110 per kW per month. It is billed on the sanctioned load, the kW figure printed on your connection, not on what you used. A home sanctioned at 2 kW pays ₹220 a month before switching anything on; at 5 kW it pays ₹550. This line is worth reading on your own bill for two reasons. It never goes away, not even with a rooftop system that covers every unit, and a sanctioned load that is much higher than you need is money paid for nothing.

Not yet official. From a secondary summary of the UPERC order.

Electricity duty, any regulatory surcharge and arrears sit below these lines on the printed bill. The electricity bill calculator models the energy and fixed charges only, so its total will be a little below the printed one.

PVVNL or NPCL: check the name on the bill

Two companies bill homes in the Noida area, and the difference matters for net metering and for the PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana application, which asks you to pick your electricity board before anything else.

Noida city, the numbered sectors, is served by PVVNL (Paschimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited, a UPPCL company). Greater Noida and Greater Noida West are served by NPCL (Noida Power Company Limited). Look at the top of your bill: the name there is the board you apply through.

Not yet official. From a secondary source; confirm against your electricity bill.

The slab rates are the same under both. The reported difference is that NPCL charges the same slab rates as the state DISCOMs with a 10% regulatory discount. On the 300-unit bill worked below, a tenth off the whole bill would be about ₹195 a month, but how NPCL applies the discount on the printed bill is not something the summaries we hold spell out, so treat that as an assumption and read your own bill.

Not yet official. From trade and secondary summaries.

The two boards run different net-metering portals and different inspection queues. The PVVNL board page and the NPCL board page cover each process; the Noida net-metering guide explains the stages common to both.

A worked bill: 300 units on a 2 kW connection

Take a household that reads 300 units on the meter for the month and has a sanctioned load of 2 kW. The energy charge is 150 units at the first rate, ₹825, plus 150 units at the second rate, ₹900, giving ₹1,725. The fixed charge on 2 kW is ₹220. The bill before duty is ₹1,945, or about ₹6.48 per unit.

That is above the figure often quoted for the state, ₹5.82 per unit. The average covers every domestic consumer in Uttar Pradesh, including small and rural connections on cheaper rates, so a 300-unit urban home carrying a fixed charge sits above it. If your own bill divides out near the state average, check whether the month was light or the sanctioned load small.

Not yet official. From a trade summary of the UPERC order.

The same arithmetic on a 500-unit month gives an energy charge of ₹3,025, since the extra 200 units all land in the third slab, and a bill of ₹3,245 on the same 2 kW load. The slabs are why a summer month costs more per unit than a winter one even though the rates have not changed.

What a rooftop system does to that bill

Net metering runs the units you generate through the meter in the opposite direction, and the board bills you on the net figure. Because the slabs are telescopic, the units removed come off the top of the ladder, at the dearest rate first. Under under the UPERC rooftop solar regulations of 2019, residential users may choose net or gross metering, and the DISCOM allows capacity within transformer limits; most homes take net metering.

On the planning yield Verde Solaire publishes for Noida, with a 10% derate for dust and monsoon, a 2 kW system generates about 225 units a month. For the 300-unit household above, that leaves about 75 units to buy, all in the first slab, so the energy charge falls to about ₹413 and the bill to about ₹633 with the fixed charge. The saving is about ₹1,312 a month, or roughly ₹15,744 a year on twelve equal months. The published 2 kW price is ₹1,35,000 to ₹1,50,000, and after the central subsidy and the Uttar Pradesh top-up the net is ₹45,000 to ₹60,000, which the saving repays in about 2.9 to 3.8 years on those assumptions. The 2 kW price page and the Noida price page hold the subsidy workings.

A 3 kW system generates about 338 units a month, more than this household uses, so the energy charge goes to nil and the surplus is carried as credit under the net-metering rules. The bill that remains is the fixed charge. The sceptic's check is simple: the fixed charge is the floor, and no system, however large, takes the bill below it. Size on the twelve-month average, not on the hottest month, because generation is credited against consumption over the year rather than matched hour by hour.

Electricity bill calculatorEnter your units and sanctioned load, pick PVVNL or NPCL, and see the slab and fixed lines. Then add a solar size and see the bill after it.Open the tool

Reading your own bill

Four lines decide the number at the bottom: the units consumed, which set the slab charge; the sanctioned load in kW, which sets the fixed charge; the board's name, which decides the portal; and the duty and arrears lines, which the slabs do not explain. If a bill looks wrong, check whether it covers two months rather than one, because a bimonthly reading pushes twice the units through the same slab ladder.