The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority has released draft regulations proposing major changes to the solar net metering system, including lower payments, smaller system sizes and shorter contracts, and has invited public feedback within 30 days.
The draft Prosumer Regulations, 2025, will replace the existing net metering rules introduced in 2015. Nepra said the changes are aimed at protecting the power system while still allowing consumers to use solar energy to reduce their electricity bills.
Under the proposed rules, consumers will no longer be allowed to install solar systems larger than their approved electricity load. This means a consumer with a 10-kilowatt load will only be allowed to install a 10-kilowatt solar system. At present, consumers are allowed to install solar systems up to one and a half times their approved load.
Existing net metering consumers will not be affected immediately. They will continue under the current rules until their seven-year contracts expire. After that, the new rules will apply.
Nepra has also proposed reducing the contract period for new net metering connections to five years instead of seven. Any extension beyond five years will depend on mutual agreement between the consumer and the power distribution company.
Another major change is a sharp cut in the rate paid for excess electricity supplied to the grid. Under the draft, consumers will be paid the National Average Energy Purchase Price, estimated at around Rs. 13 per unit, compared to the current rate of about Rs. 26 per unit.
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Nepra recently said that high electricity prices, taxes, and surcharges have pushed many consumers towards solar power. The regulator noted that grid-connected solar capacity has crossed 6,000 megawatts, while total solar capacity in the country has exceeded 13,000 megawatts.
The draft regulations also place limits at the local level. Distribution companies will not accept new net metering applications if solar generation connected to a transformer reaches 80 percent of its capacity, citing safety and system stability concerns.
For larger solar systems of 250 kilowatts or more, applicants will be required to submit technical studies to ensure the grid can handle the additional load. Power companies will have set timelines to review applications, issue cost estimates, and complete connections. Nepra said the proposed changes are meant to keep the electricity system stable while allowing people to benefit from solar power.
Public comments have been invited before the draft rules are finalized.
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Instead of fixing their own system and mis-management. They are targeting the customers which has installed PV system by full filling all the legal requirements.
Very true. They should be happy the grid is being fed all this electricity but no, they want to reduce people’s solar generation capacity. Its a joke and they have no right.
I hope batteries become viable, we’ll stop relying on the grid for excess.
No sir u r being rolled by Zombies
Once u switch to battery power, they will impose more taxes on batteries and soler panels.
So that it go beyond the purchasing power of common citizen.
They will suck our blood untill their last attempt
In our country this is the way Government works. The distribution companies get benefitted from this excess power in terms of reduced line losses (the imported power units are mostly consumed by their consumers connected to same grid). They are getting cheap power & selling at higher tariff. While determining new rate @ Rs 11 per unit as the new purchase price, has NEPRA considered ROI on investment made by the “Prosumer” on installation of the system?
All descos must cut down human recourse. Starting from top. In a desco superdent and and lineman’s are the only category who are taking care of the lines and transformers above them are just sitting in office taking huge salaries and benefits. Secondly gov of Pakistan must audit independently from a third party of all descos. And lastly upgrade all system gradually.
Well said bro. I’ll just add, power theft with the help of discos employees. If they can control only these, there will be no need for reduction. They have no right to reduce the requirement of the PV system installer
Let’s face it. They won’t do anything. And proceed with what they want that be everything.
No one did for 78 years and still counting… And the clock is ticking! Tick! Tick! Tick!
Ur comment is CRINGE Asf!
Shutup unc😂
Cut down Disco managements cost instead putting pressure on consumers .
Only solution is to privatise these fatty companies
Before any change in net metering rules, NEPRA and Power Division must substantiate these changes with the end outcome of these changes in terms of: 1) net reduction in rate per unit to grid users by their user type, 2) net reduction in capacity payments, 3) make public all the subsidies and discounted rates of all types which are being given to any type of power users by type and by geography, 4) Quantify increase in line losses including line theft if solar units are replaced by grid units.
Change in net metering rules should be the last resort and used only after exhausting all other options as solar prousers feel that PD is not taking bigger corrective actions like privatizing DISCOs and fixing distribution loopholes. They find changing net metering rules easy as their is no unified voice of solar prousers.
Like all government institutions, who just sit and watch citizens invest. When they have government wakes up and starts to blame them for their own mistakes. Instead of appreciating that citizens helped green revolution they are being sorted out.
Where can end users give feedback. No link or email address has been provided in the article. Kindly share
LoL! Like they care! Otherwise would there be this mess? And this is the umphteenth try not to mention. HaHa!
Are the people heard and counted on their concerns and if so how the people are facilitated in terms of unit cost-taxes etc. Anyhow unless the final draft comes out with the people heard
and counted concerns and the final decision nothing looks clear about the poor.
Dude? Is this even debatable? Priorteries man. Priorteries.
Customers feedback… 🤣
As they’ll consider that.
Government authorities core role is to facilitate and give relaxations to consumers but here they are the major looters
Actually this solar system policy is only to loot wapda and govt. In summer mostly people uses their own electricity. But in winter usagecomes very low if somebody uses 600 units in summer, during winter it come less than 100.all other electricity is delivered to discos. What they will do this electricity because there own electricity is extra from consumption. All over the world people getting electricity from solar are not paid.
Found the bot . All over the world people can afford things and have better lives. Why don’t your daddy Nawaz provide that first ?
Stop comparing yourself to rest of the world. Otherwise we’ll do as well
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White lie
Rate of solar energy is 26 Rs per unit now nepra plan to bring down 23 Rs per unit
This is not justified with solar consumers 50% downs rate
It should be at least 22Rs per unit
Reference draft regulations 2025. NEPRA may consider adjusting import and export at same rate . However, the surplus units exported may be calculated at NAPP.
Really? Your suggesting? When they wouldn’t even listen?
More claims 0 proof
People can generate more as is given to other people. The govt doesn’t provide electricity .
Why is nepra ordering people to pay more when they created their own electricity.
Any excess is given to the grid to be used. We have rise in demand of cheaper electricity.
Everyone is rejecting this nepra proposal
We never forgot what you did
No thanks. Solar generates electricity for everyone
You should tell nepra that their last 5 proposals have been rejected for a reason
People are moving to solar bcz you are making everything expensive. Reduce grid price cheaper to 25rs for next 10 years then talk.
Net metering is the reason people are able to help others
No thanks to you
Easy. All excuses to impose more taxes.
But that’s the plan! The grand master plan!
Tax the rich! And tax the poor like the super rich!
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All to appease IPPs.
Solar net metering system is little complicated. NEPRA draft is research based (i think). They buy and sell electricity, assess grid capacity, assess electricity purchase price, and so on. The draft is addressing multiple issues and asking for public comments. i think NEPRA should provide *data driven reasons* why they want changes in the current net metering system. for example why consumers will be paid the National Average Energy Purchase Price, estimated at around Rs. 13 per unit, compared to the current rate of about Rs. 26 per unit…..
Nothing said here is assumed at protecting consumers
“Nepra recently said that high electricity prices, taxes, and surcharges have pushed many consumers towards solar power. ”
So you admit that you change high taxes from consumers. And then admitted people are moving towards solar bcz of your high taxes.
“applicants will be required to submit technical studies to ensure the grid can handle the additional load.”
Why should applicants submit it ? Is nepra responsibility. You are a tax funded organization. Do your job.
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But allow abusive comments
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why dont NEPRA focus on getting rid of IPPs that are not even running and collecting billions in Capacity Payment? submit a proposal to buy them out instead of always focusing on how to exploit consumers
Because it’s the opposite end of their self? Ouroborous anyone?
Absolutely ridiculous, one electricity is given at exorbitantly excessive cost to fill the government coffers, two instead of reducing the cost of electricity to encourage the use of grid power, the government is punishing the public for any thing good they can afford to have. I suggest that no government or semi government/ public office or facility should be allowed to have solar system. Fix your own system rather than butchering the interest of the people.
Solar energy NetMeeting is to benefit to rich and make miserable to poors all NetMetering users are getting blood of poors rather to pay more they get benefits. As electricity is already surplus why distribution companies are getting solar energy. This malpractice of nepotism of rich and well off families to snatch loaves of poors masses . Plz stop it fully with out time leverage it is injustice with poors all old and new cases should be stoped and rather they should be over charged for night use. As they have capacity to pay why not they should because their energy is not stored with companies rather it is being waste. Plz take care of poors and masses who can not pay hefty bills.
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Parameters should be favourable to support the adoption of green energy. Our grid upgradation is the need of time and also ESS is a right way.
It will not help Discos to overcome their losses and will definitely increase circular debt as many consumers will opt for Off Grid Solar systems with falling Lithium Battery prices.
As stated in this news present Off Grid is already more than double the On Grid installations.
The only solution to discourage solar is reduced electricity bills.
They need to reduce the tariff of IPP rather to put burden on the consumer
Such a waste and fucking government
Every thing is okay only the rate proposed for the electricity dent to grid from consumer is very low… We can understand that grid s not capable to hold extra electricity coming …even though at one side govt is promoting solar usage and on the other hand these rules specially new rate for unit will not benefit end user… World is moving in other dimension and here in pak end user consumers are being ruthlessly demoralized.
The era of vultures continously eying the poor masses of Pakistan is about to end. Insha Allah, very soon new batteries with extensive deep charging capabilities would be storming the market. WAPDA, NEPRA & Sui gas companies will fade just like Govt Bus Service which used to run red buses in Punjab & light blue buses in NWFP.
The main reason is that till the NEPRA and its related bodies are not working with loyalty and equality this can’t be run properly
This policy is economically irrational, socially unjust, and intellectually dishonest.
If Pakistan’s energy crisis is truly about financial losses, then the solution is obvious: stop bleeding money through IPP capacity payments, not by punishing citizens who invested their own savings into clean energy.
Billions of rupees are paid to IPPs every year whether electricity is produced or not, under dollar-indexed contracts negotiated behind closed doors.
Yet when ordinary citizens reduce grid burden, cut fuel imports, and stabilize demand through solar, they are labeled a “problem”.
Slashing the net-metering buyback rate, limiting system sizes, and shortening contracts is not grid reform —
it is a deliberate attempt to protect IPPs at the cost of the public.
The people who vote for this government are now being crushed under:
excessive taxes
unaffordable electricity bills
and policy decisions made to safeguard elite interests
Meanwhile, bureaucrats and decision-makers remain insulated, drawing salaries and benefits funded by the same over-taxed public.
If NEPRA and the government are serious about reform, then:
renegotiate IPP contracts
eliminate unjustified capacity payments
stop dollar-indexed liabilities
and withdraw this anti-solar policy immediately
Targeting rooftop solar is lazy governance and policy failure.
This proposal must be completely rejected — not revised, not delayed.
Public comments: kachray may paink do
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What a shame, instead of fixing their corrupt systems and staff they are going to bend the rules, shame.
I am sure by then people would have created new solutions to their problems.
A big shame for government,they don’t fix their own organizations and mistakes of their employees,stop the high peak corruption in wapda,nepra,pesco,kesco etc you will definitely earn a lot bcz the electricity in Pakistan is too much expensive even then you have losses doesn’t make a sense, beside this you are putting more pressure on the consumers the innocent Pakistani’s ……shame on you all
Govt is not ment to facilitate public when all get pay of govt job then why discrimination between wapda adlia army and beaurocrate free please deal equals to all govt servant and poor public in west rich are to pay for poor here poor to pay rich please do equal reduce rate .when there was loads shedding public was effected now they arranged from theirs own sources again being punished Allah help poor and ordinary people in Pakistan all rules to crush them serve big fishes
The Government is always keen to damage the public at large by various measures. Now, the revised solar policy proposed by NEPRA aims to do the same!
Please don’t change rules. Change in rules means
U- TURN in policy which is not good. We may
again face serious shortage.
Instead of fixing the issue within their own system, they trying to deprive us from the single relief that we currently have and that too is done by ourselves not provided by them. Get rid of the IPPs and stop being more hungrier for money. Haram khana chor do ab bas karo ALLAH ko jawab bhi daina hai.
We get 6 hours load shedding due to the kunda system of K electric management. We on the other hand are legal star paying customers. Nepra should look for ways and means to punish the corrupt officials rather than subject heart patients like me to change laws regarding solar system installations. Turning a blind eye to the criminal mismanagement has become norm of my country and countrymen. No one would have installed solar systems if the feeders were managed properly. So unless you remove all involved in electricity theft you will not have proper revenue for K electric. Politics should be kept aside while hiring and firing the staff of all electric distribution companies.
The government wants all the power and non of the responsibilities it’s a failed state .
They should appreciate solar users those cover the government deficit & now they are making new policies on natural resources; bad government policies not realistic the reason others countries government helping their nations instead of burden so pls wake up
The world is moving towards clean energy in a big way. However, due to wrong policies of our energy and power mix. We are now being constrained to abandon solar Hebert which is badly affecting our economic development. Instead of discussing solarisation the effort should be to further promote it by getting rid of IPPs. In this context, NEPRA’s draft policy shouldn’t be approved by the Govt. If not better, let the present policy on Solar energy e continued at least.
If a person collect a budget very hardly for solar system and got it
After that wapda twist the neck this consumer
Asa nahe hona chai ye awam ka haq hai is khatam na kia jai
Why Govt sale out costly electricity to peoples if peoples instal solor in self home cost of pockit mony why govt cheeting the peoples
We are strongly condam the Govt policy
Loot loo awam ko jitna chaho , hesab tou Dena pre gaa sub ko sub se pehle 1 Judges, 2 Generals, 3 President, 4 Primes Minister,5 Politicians, 6 bearucrates , 7 Nepra and concerned department.
All se dro , he is going to fix you all soon ,
People will simply turn to fully off grid, those battery packs are getting cheaper now. No one can afford electricity at this rate anyways.
Instead of fleecing the general public and citizens who are helping the country in increasing available energy the corrupt Govt should stop paying IPPs charges which everyone knows are there because of bad contracts made by corrupt beaurocrats and politicians. IPPs should only be paid for the electricity purchased from them and not paid for capacity charges which mean electricity never purchased. !!! If these illegal contracts are reviewed, all problems of Energy will be sorted out and Pakistan can continue encouraging Green energy instead of Nepra proposing hinderances for Green energy. !!!
عوام کو ہی قربانی کا بکرا بننا پڑتا ہےیہ ویلفئر سٹیٹ۔ ہے ہی نہی ۔کیوں اتنی مہنگی بجلی خریدیں جارہی ہے ایسے ایگریمنٹ ہیں جاہل آدمی بھی کانوں کو ہاتھ لگانے نا تو عوام کا کوی خیال ہے نا ملک کا یہ ملک بس یونہی چلتا رہے گا ایلیٹ کلاس کا ملک ہے وہ اپنے مفادات کے لیے بھاگ رہی ہیں کرپشن اور بڑھ گئ ہے عوام کو ہیلمٹ کے پیچھے لگا دیا
So called Nepra is aiming to harm consumers and give all gold benefits to power companies where they get bag of dollars
Energy production by PV is harmless while their so called system is messing eco system
TUOO LAKH ZAMEEN DEYKH….FALAK DEYKH……..MASHRIQ SAYE UBER HERTEY HOEY A …SOORAJ… ☀️ 🌞 KO ZARRA DEKHNA.
Ise ka assan hal ha , jis nay be solor lagya ha , oun Saab ko saaze mout daay dou.
Jou be wapda ki electricity use kar raha ous ko rozna soba sham kouray maray jain.
Respected Nepra Team,
Already people get pissed due to inflation, people can’t afford heavy rates of wapda units, maximum people installed solar on installments to reduce there bills as well as support wapda shortage, instead of thanking and giving credit to customers wapda is charging unit at 3 times higher prices and take units from customer at very lower rates, this is in justice, remember every one who is the part of injustice will face consequences from Allah Almighty here as well as here after. So kindly made that decisions which u can justify in front God. Allah ki makhlooq k liye asaanya paida karo Allah ap k liye asaanya farmaye ga.
Thanks
People are already suffering from a lot of economic difficulties in this country you guys are putting more pressure on them instead of giving them relief…we already had paid a lot for solar system so we can get some relief and you have started imposing new terms..kindly re think on it