In 2024, LESCO restricted issuing green meters in solar systems and mandated the installation of Advance Metering Infrastructure (AMI) meters instead. The switch to AMI meters aims to resolve issues like overbilling and electricity theft.
NEPRA, in sites recent update, revealed that energy production capacity of pending solar net metering applications was previously miscalculated by a factor of 1,000. As of now, there are 4,742 pending applications with a total capacity of 58,822 MW, which exceeds the country’s total power generation capacity of 46,000 MW.
The surge in applications is driven by high electricity costs, with significant backlogs at companies and delays are mainly due to high buy-back rates in the net metering system, and NEPRA called for a review of the tariff structure to resolve the issue.
