In this regard, a senior official of the Energy Ministry stated that in addition to feeders, the AMI system will also be installed on all commercial and industrial connections, bulk consumers, and one-point supply in decreasing the order of load. Installation of AMI meters would begin from feeders having the highest percentage of losses. 

 “This installation of a high-tech system without man intervention will help significantly reduce the pilferage of electricity and technical losses as the decades-old conventional method of energy audit & accounting principle has failed to precisely identify energy stealing consumers & technical loss areas,” the officer said. 

The official said that an independent autonomous directorate would be set up in this regard. Every DISCO would share the timeline of the completion of stated projects with a project director, other teams and the Power Division. 

The official believed that the installation of the high-tech system will help eliminate electricity theft and technical losses because the conventional energy auditing system is incapable to figure out the areas of high energy losses. 

The report further said that DISCOs would have no problem in outsourcing feeders and transformers when this system gets installed as this would help in correcting feeder coding and indexing consumers’ reference numbers with the right transformer. This in turn would help DISCOs to take a meter reading through a real-time GMS technology as well as distantly disconnect the meter. 

Moreover, the report mentioned that the DISCOs would coordinate with meter manufacturers and contractors in order to add specific features to the meters besides implementing AMI. 

In 2009 and 2012, the official added the World Bank launched energy sector reform projects in Latin America, South Asia and East Asia for “sustainable optimal reduction of technical losses and elimination of non-technical losses”. 

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The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) plans to amend the Distributed Generation and Net Metering Regulations, 2015, to cut down the payment for distributor generators of net metering by almost 30 percent. 

As per the details, users supplying power to WAPDA via net metering would probably suffer a 20 percent loss, however, some consumers may now be required to pay the bill. 

The proposed amendments to solar energy have the following salient features: 

• Single-stage, two-envelope bidding 
• Straight-Line tariff 
• 70 percent dollar indexation of tariff 
• Benchmark tariff by NEPRA 
• Guaranteed purchase of power 

• Land and interconnection to be given by the government 
• Exemption on all import-related duties and taxes 
• The current Energy Purchase Agreement (EPA) and Implementation Agreement (IA) will be used 
• COD within 12 months of EPA signing 
• Term: 25 years on a BOOT basis 

• 15 percent income tax 
• Payment guaranteed on 60th day after invoice through Bank Debit 

Moreover, NEPRA has asked for public feedback on the proposed features until End-September, afterwards, the law is expected to be finalized. 

The regulator’s move has greatly discouraged both current and prospective net metering applicants rather than incentivizing renewable energy into expensive imported fuel-based thermal generation systems. 

A number of consumers have already criticized NEPRA and expressed their displeasure with the proposed amendment to its rules, which they term a disincentive to the use of solar energy in the country. 

Technically, net metering basically promulgates the concerned government regulating bodies to pay users who inject electricity into the national grid. Net metering has the capability to decrease electricity bills while also helping to lessen power shortages. 

In addition, implementing capital-intensive technologies like solar energy, which has a great upfront cost but lower operating costs requires easy financing, however, the above-mentioned proposed regulation ends it. 

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