Just when households believed they had found a rare hedge against runaway electricity bills, the state appears ready to move the goalposts. The proposed shift from net metering to net billing — now firmly on Nepra's table — risks turning one of Pakistan's few consumer-led success stories into yet another burden for citizens already crushed by inflation, taxation and energy insecurity.

The change is simple but consequential. Net metering allows solar consumers to offset their........

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