{"id":80352,"date":"2025-07-14T14:22:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=80352"},"modified":"2025-07-14T17:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:20:15","slug":"govt-to-lower-buyback-rate-as-new-solar-policy-finalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/govt-to-lower-buyback-rate-as-new-solar-policy-finalized\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to lower buyback rate as new solar policy finalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: To revise the current <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/federal-cabinet-defers-approval-of-solar-net-metering-policy-for-further-review\/\">net metering system<\/a>, the federal government is considering a new buyback rate for electricity generated by solar panel users to return to the national grid.<\/p>\n<p>According to the details and <a href=\"https:\/\/thepublicpurview.com\/\">latest news<\/a>, the Power Division has made a draft policy in this regard, and it is set to be presented to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.<\/p>\n<p>The official has told a local publication that the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/govt-plans-to-revise-rooftop-solar-buyback-tariff-policy\/\">buyback tariff<\/a> will be one-third of the base tariff. For the current Fiscal Year, the authorities have decided to fix the buyback rate at Rs11.33 per unit.<\/p>\n<p>While existing solar users will continue to receive Rs. 27 per unit under the net metering arrangement, ensuring no immediate impact on current investments.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new policy, the buyback rate will follow a gross metering mechanism with no provision for net-metering, while purchasing electricity for their use separately, unlike the current system, where energy generation is offset against consumption.<\/p>\n<p>The officials said that net metering has imposed a financial burden of Rs103 billion on the national power system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: To revise the current net metering system, the federal government is considering a new buyback rate for electricity generated by solar panel users to return to the national grid. According to the details and latest news, the Power Division has made a draft policy in this regard, and it is set to be presented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":63889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[30100,30101,30099],"class_list":["post-80352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-buyback-rate","tag-solar-panel-users","tag-solar-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80381,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80352\/revisions\/80381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}