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Solar power in Pakistan: From household self-sufficiency to regulatory imbalance
When rooftop solar was first incentivised in Pakistan in 2015, the policy objective was clear: to enable households to generate their own electricity, reduce reliance on the grid, and become more self ...
By Shahnawaz Akhter Pakistan's rooftop solar revolution has been extraordinary. The country currently has around 7,000 MW capacity of net metering-based ...
Together, these imports represent generation infrastructure rather than fuel consumption. By June 2025, Pakistan had imported ...
Some analysts argue that the solar boom has peaked and installations are set to slow. But silver—used for solar panels—has ...
Pakistan’s solar boom is quietly reshaping the country’s energy landscape and could save the economy more than $100 billion ...
Pakistan's power regulator has slashed the price it will pay citizens who install rooftop solar panels and sell the energy to the grid, new rules published by the National Electric Power Regulatory ...
Pakistan’s rooftop solar boom was built on a promise: invest in panels, connect to grid, and excess electricity will cancel out consumption unit for unit. That promise has now been abruptly rewritten.
Responding to the criticism, Leghari told the House that out of Pakistan's total installed solar capacity of 20,000 to 22,000 ...
The Prosumer Regulations 2025 establish a framework for integrating distributed generation facilities like solar, wind, and ...
Parliamentarians and even government officials in the National Assembly Standing Committee on Industries and Production on Monday denounced the change in solar net metering policy by the National ...
Pakistan’s move to replace net metering with a net-billing system for solar power users has triggered widespread debate across the energy sector, raising critical questions about affordability, ...
Level Coordination Committee (SLCC), chaired by Chief Secretary Anurag Rastogi, to oversee implementation and monitoring of the PM-Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana.
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