National
May 19, 2021
ISLAMABAD. The Islamabad Electric Supply Company (IESCO) granted 2,796 net-metering connections in the region, here on Tuesday.
IESCO Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Chaudhry Abdul Razaq said that net metering was a revolutionary step taken by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government. He said the Power Division minister was also actively pursuing the policy to promote it across all power distribution companies (DISCOs). There is a good environment for net-metering here in the IESCO region, he added.
He said the company had received over 3,000 applications for net-metering connections. After a necessary departmental investigation, it sent 2,960 applications for net-metering connections to the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA), which issued licence for 2,917 applicants for net-metering connections.