Answered straight, including the ones we cannot.

No, and anyone who promises you one is not telling you the truth. Once your own consumption is covered, fixed charges remain: roughly Rs 33 to Rs 35 per kW per month on a residential connection, and a minimum of about Rs 2,000 a month on an agricultural connection even at zero consumption.

A low bill, yes. A zero bill, no. What solar does is remove your purchase of power, not the charges for having a connection to the grid.

Panel warranties commonly run 25 years, and that number is broadly credible — it is a manufacturer warranty rather than a sales promise. In practice, degradation of roughly half a percent a year is normal, so a 25-year-old panel retains about 87% of its output.

Be more sceptical about the inverter. It is the component most likely to fail, its life is usually shorter, and it is where the warranty terms are worth reading closely. Ask for the warranty length in years, in writing, separately from the seller's own promise.

It depends on the size, and we are not going to invent a number for you. Small systems are normally metered with the distribution company's own meter; larger ones commonly involve a meter the consumer owns and pays for.

We have seen the 10 kW dividing line quoted often enough that it is worth naming plainly: we could not find it in S.R.O. 251(I)/2026. We read the gazette and it does not set that threshold. So treat 10 kW as something you have been told, not as a rule you have read, and get it confirmed. Ask your distributor which applies to your system in writing, before anything is installed.

The regulations set minimums: acknowledgement within 5 working days, initial review within 15 days, and 7 working days each for concurrence and the connection letter.

Those are floors, not typical times. Real-world timelines in this market run two to four months and often longer, and a rejection restarts the clock. A check to ask before you order: is distributed generation on your transformer already at 80% of rated capacity? If it is, your application will not be entertained at all.

No one who is honest can promise you a date. We do not.

You cannot. Since 9 February 2026, Regulation 3(2) of the Prosumer Regulations caps your capacity at your sanctioned load. The old 1.5 times rule no longer applies.

Any quotation built on 1.5× was written before the change and is wrong. See the net billing page for the regulation and what it means for export.

Faisalabad is a good location. Panels need bright sunlight, not heat — so actually they work slightly better on a cool bright day than a hot hazy one. The real limitations here are dust in summer and fog in winter.

A well-sited, regularly cleaned array produces roughly 4.2 kWh per kW per day, which is the figure we use throughout this site. Cleaning is a maintenance cost that belongs in your plan from day one, not an optional extra someone might mention later.

Only if you use significant power after sunset. That is the whole test.

A battery's main value now is moving your own generated energy past the evening peak instead of exporting it at about Rs 11 a unit. If most of your consumption is in daylight — a shop, a daytime office, a well-scheduled pump — then a battery is a cost with very little return, and we will tell you that rather than sell you one.

Battery imports into Pakistan are up about 220% year on year, largely because scheduled load shedding returned in April 2026. That is a real reason to consider storage. It is not a reason to buy a battery you will not use.

We do not know, and we are not going to tell you that we do. A refund or rebate on some part of an electricity bill is a thing governments do sometimes, and there is persistent talk of schemes tying solar to electric vehicles. But we could not find a current, primary source for any of it — no notification, no schedule, no terms.

So rather than repeat a rumour with a confident face, here is our answer: if someone has shown you a scheme in writing, ask FESCO directly and bring us the notification. If you cannot produce the document, it is not a scheme, whatever you have been told.

The name changed, and so did the money. Under net metering your exported power was bought back at your full retail tariff — the same price you paid for it. Under net billing it is priced at the national average energy purchase price, which is roughly a quarter of the residential rate.

That is the whole change. The system on your roof does not care what the rules are called, but your bill does. See the full explanation.

Your agreement and its term survive. Regulation 21(2) keeps them alive. Your price does not survive with them: the proviso is explicit that existing distributed generation "shall be billed in accordance with the national average power purchase price till the expiry of the term of their agreement."

So if anyone has told you that an old connection protects your export rate, that is not what the gazette says. More here, including the part about S.R.O. 547(I)/2026 that we could not read.

Usually it is a misuse, and the distinction matters enough that we publish our own entry in full. The AEDB registers certified installers in three categories with different capacity ceilings. Being on a list is not the same as holding a valid certificate today, and the public list is not filtered by validity date.

We show ours verbatim, including the parts that are not flattering. Read the record.

Yes, and this is the single most common misunderstanding we encounter. A tariff is not one number. You pay a rate per unit and a fixed charge for having the connection at all, which does not fall when your consumption falls.

On a residential connection the fixed charge is roughly Rs 33 to Rs 35 per kW per month. On an agricultural connection there is a minimum of about Rs 2,000 a month even at zero consumption. This is why we will not promise a zero bill to anyone.

Sometimes, and the deciding question is not capacity — it is whether the extra generation lands on a load that is running at that hour. A bigger array on a building whose demand has not grown mostly produces more export, and export is now the cheap thing.

The protection under Regulation 21(2) attaches to the capacity you already had, so enlarging is a genuinely different decision from installing for the first time. Work out the new shape before you commit, not just the new size.

Our terms are 30 / 40 / 30:

• 30% — detailed price quote on letterhead with our NTN, before work starts.
• 40% — when the material reaches site.
• 30% — after commissioning and handover, once the system has been shown to you working.

The last third is held back deliberately, so that our money and yours finish on the same day. Each instalment's warranty card is registered in your name. If a quotation asks for more up front than this, ask why — it is check number seven.