Business Recorder
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has issued new notification which ensures that existing net metering rates available to solar consumers who signed agreements with Discos before February 9, 2026 will continue till the expiry of their agreements. According to the notification, SRO 547 (1)/2026. In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 47 of the Regulation off Generation, Transmission and Distribution of Electric Power Act, 1997 (XL of 1997), read with all other enabling provisions thereof, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority hereby notifies the following amendment(s) in the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Prosumer) Regulations, 2026:- In regulation 21, sub-regulation (2), along with its proviso, shall be substituted with the following: “(2) Notwithstanding the repeal effected by these regulations, nothing shall affect approvals granted, licences or concurrences issued, and agreements executed under the repealed regulations before the commencement of these regulations, and any distributed generator having a valid agreement executed under the repealed regulations shall be billed in accordance with the rate and mechanism provided in the repealed regulations till the expiry of the term of such agreement: Provided that the savings to the distributed generator with regard to rate and billing mechanism during the currency of existing agreement shall cease to be applicable in case of material modification of distributed generation facility resulting in change to the maximum electrical output of the distributed generation facility of the distributed generator having a licence or concurrence or approval granted under the repealed regulations. Copyright Business Recorder, 2026
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