Staff Reporter Islamabad
Distributed generation through net-metering is one of the most effective tools to enable renewable power generation at the grassroot level and is one of the key focus areas of NEPRA for meeting increased electricity demands sustainably.
This was stated by Chairman NEPRA while addressing the launch of a research report by Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) titled ‘Barriers and Drivers of Solar Prosumage: A Case Study of Pakistan’ at NEPRA headquarters.
The event – jointly hosted by NEPRA and IPS – was chaired by Chairman NEPRA Tauseef Farooqi, co-chaired by Chairman IPS Khalid Rahman, and addressed as panelists by Dr Sardar Mohazzam, Managing Director, National Energy Efficiency & Conservation Authority (NEECA), Bahadur Shah, Member (M&E), NEPRA, Mirza Hamid Hasan, Chairman, IPS’ Steering Committee on Energy, Water & Climate Change, and Dr Gulfaraz Ahmed, former Secretary, Petroleum and Natural Resources and first chairman of NEPRA.
Farooqi, in his keynote speech, commended the IPS’ study for highlighting the barriers faced by consumers in processing their applications for net-metering and providing information about the responses of DISCOs and their overall performance in processing the net-metering applications.
Being an electricity regulator, NEPRA is paving the way for clean energy and establishing a liberalized power market for its consumers, Farooqui declared.
He said that NEPRA envisions greening the power sector by promoting renewable power generation according to the government’s goals and objectives.
