On 9th February 2026, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) approved the Prosumer Regulations 2025 in a process so...

NEPRA exists to serve a clear purpose. Its mandate is to create conditions for affordable & reliable electricity, ensure merit-based...

Instead, NEPRA became an instrument of policy reversal. The public hearing on 6th February revealed the depths of this failure....

On the very next working day, Monday, the regulations were passed without a single clause changed. The public hearing was...

During the hearing, most time was allocated to PD and ISMO, which presented numbers with no rationale provided. These numbers...

PD claims solar consumers impose Rs. 2.8 per kWh costs on others. Yet capacity charges, 57% of the Power Purchase...

Solar consumers invested their savings to escape these rising costs, relying on NEPRA's regulations certainty. PD now forces them to...

The human cost of these regulations extends beyond solar. The Household Integrated Economic Survey 2024-25 by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics...

The consequences are predictable. With declining battery costs, Prosumers will add storage, increase self-consumption, then leave the grid entirely. PD...

NEPRA has sent a message to every stakeholder in Pakistan's energy sector that regulatory certainty does not exist, contracts can...

The final irony is that after pressuring NEPRA to approve these regulations, PD requested their review on the Prime Minister's...

This brings us to the moment of truth. In constitutional monarchies where the phrase "the king is dead, long live...

Dr. Omais Abdur Rehman

Lead Coordinator- Pakistan Renewable Energy Coalition