The Chairman of National Business Group Pakistan, the President of the Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum, the President of All Karachi Industrial Alliance, the Chairman of the FPCCI Advisory Board, and the President and former provincial minister, Mian Zahid Hussain, said on Monday that the power bureaucracy is systematically discouraging domestic, commercial and industrial consumers of solar energy, which is regrettable.
He said that due to the unaffordable electricity prices, the public and business community are increasingly inclined to use solar energy. Still, instead of cooperating in this regard, power distribution companies are putting up obstacles.
Mian Zahid Hussain said that a domestic consumer has to pay an additional cost of forty to sixty thousand to install a green meter.
Talking to the business community, the veteran business leader said that some reports suggest that the reading of a single-phase meter is taken from the front, where the consumed units are visible. At the same time, the camera is tilted while reading a green meter so that the reading is not visible, and the consumer can be easily deceived.
He said that there is a huge difference between the electricity production of the inverter of solar consumers and the production reported by the power company, and the user always loses.
The business leader said that the billing system for green meters has been kept so complicated that 99% of the users don’t understand it.
