No plans to scrap solar net metering policy: energy minister
Federal Minister for Energy Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari on Sunday said the government had no plans to end the policy of solar net-metering. The minister’s remarks came in the wake of media reports, claiming that the government was scrapping the policy and replacing it with a new gross-metering mechanism. Net metering allows consumers to sell excess electricity produced by their solar system to their power distribution company, resulting in significant savings in their electricity bill for the month. However, under the gross metering mechanism, the electricity generated by consumers’ rooftop solar systems is fed into the national grid, which they will then buy from the disco, potentially reducing the monetary benefit.