Islamabad
May 2, 2021
Islamabad : Enhancing public-private partnership, streamlining financial instruments in and paving grounds for increasing power purchase agreement (PPA)-based contracts is the only way forward for creating a conducive environment for third party intervention in solar based distributed generation in the country.
This was the gist of the thoughts shared in a consultative session on ‘Prospects of Third-Party Intervention Framework and Business Models for Photovoltaic-based Distributed Generation’ at the Institute of Policy Studies.
The event was organised to assess and discuss business models to foster solar PV-based distributed generation uptake for commercial and industrial power sector consumers.
Chaired by former water and power secretary Mirza Hamid Hasan and co-chaired by IPS Chairman Khalid Rahman, the deliberation was addressed by energy experts and practitioners like Dr Irfan Yousuf, consultant renewable energy, National Electric Power Regulatory