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February 21, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s residential electricity consumers have installed 120 megawatts of solar power generation capacity since the launch of net metering regulations, a senior official said on Saturday.
National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) Chairman Tauseef Farooqi said consumers have been provided with an opportunity to become the producers of electricity. “Nepra is paving the way for clean energy and establishing a liberalised power market for its consumers,” Farooqi said during the launch of ‘Barriers and Drivers of Solar Prosumage: A Case Study of Pakistan’.
The case study by the Institute of Policy Studies prepared last year said the cumbersome procedure makes it quite challenging to get the generation licence, while power distribution companies continued to be reluctant towards distributed generation growth owing to administrative burden of processing applications, perceived fears of revenue losses and integration challeng
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January 13, 2021
KARACHI: The government has decided not to include cross-subsidy and stranded costs into the electricity wheeling charges on industrial connections, it was learnt on Tuesday.
This will promote healthy competition and pressurise distribution companies to improve their performance.
Nepra said imposition of such costs would not only discourage wheeling regime in Pakistan but at the same time would also provide no incentive to discos to improve their performance in terms of reduction in transmission and distribution losses, minimise pendency of new connections and increase recoveries.
Wheeling target consumers are primarily industrial connections, which establish interconnection with relevant power distribution companies (discos) on self-finance basis and no cost in this regard is incurred by discos/ the Central Power Purchasing Agency (CPPA). Hence, there is no point for adding stranded costs on such industrial consumers. The cost benefit will help indust
NEPRA imposes Rs13 million fine on PESCO
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PESCO was fined on charges of negligence which resulted in 26 electrocution-led fatalities.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has imposed a fine of Rs13 million on Peshawar Electric Supply Company (PESCO) on charges of negligence which resulted in 26 electrocution-led fatalities during the July-December period in 2019, Dunya News reported.
In a press statement issued on Monday, NEPRA said that due to at least 26 reports of deaths due to electrocution during the above period it constituted a two members investigation committee, under Section 27A of NEPRA Act 1997.
The investigation committee’s report revealed that 14 out of the total 26 fatalities occurred on part of PESCO’s negligence, said a press release issued here on Monday.