Net metering has placed a financial strain of Rs. 103 billion on Pakistan’s grid consumers, leading the government to consider switching to a gross metering system.
To ease the financial impact on grid consumers, the government is considering implementing gross metering, which would reduce the rate for electricity from solar users from Rs. 21 per unit to Rs. 8-9 per unit.
Solar net metering, which allows users to offset their electricity bills by supplying surplus power to the grid, has grown rapidly. According to Express News, installed capacity has increased from 321 MW in 2021 to 3,277 MW in 2024 and is projected to reach 12,377 MW by 2034.
However, it currently benefits only 0.6% of the country’s 37 million electricity users. The Power Division revealed that net metering users contributed Rs. 103 billion in 2024, a cost that has been passed on to traditional grid consumers. Without changes to the policy, officials warn that this burden could rise to Rs. 503 billion over the next decade.
Cities like Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad, Faisalabad, and Peshawar now represent 80% of net metering users, with over 226,440 connections nationwide.
How consumers net metering strain hurts to those who never bothered dent on economy by IPPs for more than decade.
This was Already challenged .. why is propakistani not asking questions from the govt ?
Always posting articles and begging for donations.
We don’t need a mouthpiece .
Arsalan again making stuff up as usual.
Solar GENERATES electricity . They DON’T contribute to cost. By that logic power plants contribute to cost to the grid.
Thanks to net metering people can actuality generate electricity and give it to the grid . Bcz our govt can’t do anything .
Solar GENERATES electricity
They provide ELECTRICITY.
they don’t take electricity. They don’t contribute costs but provide electricity which govt failed to do so .
well said!
It seems you don’t understand it fully. When solar customers sell that said solar energy back to their Respective DISCOs, at a higher rates the problem starts from there(consumers who are fully offgrid are not the problem. i.e., the ones who fully rely on solar in day and on batteries at night and dont sell their excess solar energy back to grid). Most of the solar customers are the ones who can pay for higher bills, but now they are all selling back. They are effectively using National Grid as backup. That means most consumers who remain on Grid are the ones who can not pay for higher usage and belong to a lower income bracket. Also left on Grid are the ones who steal. So thus this becomes a problem real Quick.
These idiots don’t have a clue of what a gross metering grid will cost, and all of their current solar suppliers will go off grid before they give a cent to these nincompoops