The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has invited public comments on a proposed amendment to the recently notified NEPRA (Prosumer) Regulations, 2026, aiming to clarify and potentially giving billing protections for existing distributed generators under the old net-metering framework.
In a draft notification published under Section 47(3) of the Regulation of Generation, Transmission and Distribution of Electric Power Act, 1997, NEPRA seeks stakeholder inputs on revising sub-regulation (2) of regulation 21 within a month.
The proposed change would substitute the current provision to state that approvals, licenses, concurrences, and agreements executed under the repealed regulations (the 2015 net-metering rules) remain unaffected.
Existing distributed generators with valid agreements would continue billing under the rates and mechanisms of those repealed regulations until their agreement terms expire.
A key proviso deems the amendment retroactive, effective from February 9, 2026, the date the Prosumer Regulations were originally notified via S.R.O. 251(I)/2026, ensuring it “shall always be deemed to have had effect accordingly.”
Public comments on the draft amendment are invited to address these transitional issues. Stakeholders can submit views to NEPRA, with the regulator expected to finalize changes after review.
