The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has scheduled a public hearing for February 6 to review proposed changes to the solar net-metering system.
Nepra said it received comments from stakeholders, including government bodies, power utilities, organizations, and the general public, prompting the hearing. The regulator has invited all stakeholders to present their views.
Nepra has issued draft Prosumer Regulations 2025 that propose changes to existing net-metering rules. The draft limits new solar installations to a consumer’s sanctioned load, replacing the current provision that allows installations of up to 150 percent of sanctioned capacity.
Existing net-metering consumers will continue under their current seven-year contracts until those agreements expire. The draft regulations also reduce the contract period for new net-metering connections from seven years to five years, with renewal subject to mutual consent.
Nepra will directly regulate and license solar systems ranging from one kilowatt to one megawatt. Nepra has also proposed changing the payment mechanism for surplus electricity supplied to the grid.
Under the proposal, prosumers will receive the national average energy purchase price, estimated at about Rs. 13 per unit, instead of the current rate of around Rs. 26 per unit. The regulator plans to replace net metering with net billing, charging imported electricity at the applicable tariff and crediting exported power at the revised rate.
Nepra said the proposed rules aim to update the regulatory framework as on-grid solar capacity continues to expand across the country.
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It has already been rejected.
According to nepra, we must bear changing rates by power companies as they want but at the same time they get fixed rate on net metering.
Unacceptable. This is criminal and has been rejected by all stakeholders.
You’re truly an angry guy huh? Anyways, this uncertainty regarding net metering is getting tiring at this point; the same thing has been said for the last 1 year at this point yet nothing has happened. I don’t think this article will be an exception.
You forgot the part where nepra wants this done.
Not the county
Since nepra failed to renegotiate power company rates. There is no reason to change solar net metering rates.
We were promised cheaper electricity. They failed. And spineless losers like you should send our message to them. You cowards.
Immediately opt for hybrids and get rid from black mailing of institutions
good buyback rate must be 5 ruppes.its free energy afterall.
What will the new bribe rate for file. Presently they take 100,000 when actual amount is very low.
If the kind of efforts to strangulate general public were put in to negotiate with IPPs, there won’t have been any issues and everyone will enjoy the electricity at affordable rates!
There is no consistency in any policy especially related to general public. Unskilled, unexperience ministers and there team destroying by implementing unlawful business policies, must educate your self bro while you are keep destroying whole country