NEPRA sabotaging govt’s efforts to promote solar energy: PDP leader

KARACHI   –  Pasban Democratic Party (PDP) Gen­eral Secretary Iqbal Hashmi while ex­pressing concern over solar net meter­ing rate policy of National Electricity Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) said it will sabotage the efforts of She­hbaz Sharif government to promote so­lar energy in the country. He said the move of NEPRA to amend the Distributed Generation and Net Metering Regulations, 2015 to reduce payment for distributor generator of net metering by almost 30pc would surely sabotage the incumbent govern­ment’s plan of increasing the share of renewable energy in the overall ener­gy mix. He said instead of incentivizing the induction of renewable energy into expensive imported fuel based thermal generation system, NEPRA is trying to demotivate the existing as well as the prospective net metering aspirants.  He said cut in net metering tariff will be detrimental…

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