• Nepra releases draft regulations, seeking feedback within 30 days before repealing 2015 legislation
• Life of new contracts to be reduced from seven to five years
ISLAMABAD: After repeated botched attempts by the power division, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra), mandated by the government, has now moved to cut size, life and repayment rates of the net-metered solar power consumers by almost half in an apparent attempt to protect an expensive and inefficient power utility business from irrelevance and complete collapse.
The regulator formally released draft Prosumer Regulations, 2025, on Tuesday for public comments within 30 days before repealing the Alternative and Renewable Energy Distributed Generation and Net Metering Regulations, 2015.
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