URCA Releases 2025 Fee Schedule to Support Expanding Regulatory Mandate

The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA) has published its 2025 Fee Schedule, outlining the regulatory fees applicable across the electronic communications, electricity, and natural gas sectors. The updated schedule reflects URCA’s ongoing commitment to maintaining a transparent, fair, and proportionate fee structure aligned with its expanding responsibilities and budgeted regulatory activities for the upcoming fiscal year.

The 2025 Fee Schedule underscores URCA’s statutory duty to levy fees that support its operations and cover the cost of executing its functions under the Communications Act, 2009, the Electricity Act, 2024, and the Natural Gas Act, 2024. These fees ensure that URCA can continue to deliver efficient regulatory oversight and drive sectoral progress while fulfilling its public interest obligations.

This year’s schedule introduces fees applicable to the Natural Gas Sector for the first time, following the sector’s inclusion under URCA’s regulatory remit in 2024. Additionally, fees under the Electricity Sector have been adjusted to reflect the redistribution of regulatory costs between sectors. The communications sector has also seen adjustments in its fees due to increased activity in consumer engagement, public education, and professional services.

The annual URCA Fee remains essential to funding the authority’s core regulatory and administrative functions. It is calculated based on licensees’ relevant turnover and applies uniformly to similarly situated entities across all regulated sectors. The 2025 Fee Schedule also includes charges for application processing, change of control reviews, merger assessments, document requests, and radio spectrum use.

URCA reminds all licensees that timely payment of assessed fees is critical to ensuring the authority’s continued ability to deliver robust, effective regulation. The full 2025 Fee Schedule is available on URCA’s website here: URCA 2025 Fee Schedule.pdf.

For further information or clarification, licensees are encouraged to contact URCA directly.