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Net Metering vs Net Billing in Pakistan: What Changed in 2026 The single rule that flipped Pakistani solar economics, in 800 words. Plus what to do if you have an existing system, and what to size for if you are installing now. By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 6-min read The two rules i...
Asad BaigThe 2026 NEPRA Prosumer Regulations Explained, Line by Line What changed for Pakistani solar households in February 2026, what each rule actually means, and why the government chose this path By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 7-min read What this is, in one paragraph In February 2026, NE...
Asad BaigWhy Does a Fugitive's Power Plant Still Get Paid by the Pakistani State? The Suleman Shehbaz, Chiniot Power Limited story explained, plus what it tells us about how the IPP system actually treats its insiders By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 7-min read The question worth asking out loud...
Asad BaigNadeem Babar: The Architect Inside, and the Oursun Solar Tariff How a former Wall Street banker who founded Orient Power was appointed by Imran Khan to reform the very system he had built, and what the Oursun Solar tariff at 132 cents per unit reveals about the conflict of interest By Asad Baig · La...
Asad BaigThe Dawood Story: HUBCO, Engro, and the Thar Coal Plants Pakistan's largest private power empire, the family that runs it, and the Rs. 23.2 billion bond settlement that paid them from future Pakistani sovereign debt By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 7-min read The largest private power e...
Asad BaigThe Mansha Empire: From the MCB Bank Sale to Lalpir Power How a textile family ranked fifteenth richest in 1970 became Pakistan's wealthiest dynasty by 1993, and what their four power plants collect every year from the Pakistani consumer By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 8-min read The s...
Asad BaigThe CPEC Power Contracts: Terms, Costs, and Why They Are Worse Than 1994 Twenty-one Chinese state-owned plants, 6,000 megawatts, returns of 27 to 34 percent in dollars, and contracts that cannot be renegotiated. The CPEC story explained. By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 9-min read Why C...
Asad BaigThe 2020 Inquiry Report That Was Buried: What It Said and Who Stopped It The most thorough documentation of Pakistani IPP corruption ever assembled, suppressed within weeks of completion. What was inside, who was named, and the phone call that buried it. By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx....
Asad BaigThe 2002 and 2006 Repeats: How Each Government Made Pakistan's Electricity Crisis Worse After 1994 came 2002. After 2002 came 2006. Each government promised reform. Each delivered the same disease in different packaging. By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 8-min read Why these two years al...
Asad BaigThe 1994 Power Policy: How One Year Locked Pakistan Into Thirty The decisions made in a single year that defined Pakistan's electricity sector for a generation By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 9-min read Why this one year matters Every dysfunctional system has a moment of origin. A spec...
Asad BaigNEPRA: The Regulator That Did Not Regulate How Pakistan's electricity regulator spent twenty-five years approving the tariff structures that produced the crisis it was created to prevent By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 9-min read The institution at the centre of the failure Most discus...
Asad BaigThe Working Capital Scam: NEPRA's Quietest Subsidy to IPPs How a single accounting mismatch between monthly payments and quarterly tariff calculations costs Pakistani consumers billions every year By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 6-min read The smallest scandal that costs the most Of al...
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