The electrical infrastructure around the globe is expanding at a rapid rate for the sake of fulfilling power demands in the domestic, commercial and entertainment industries aiming to boost the living standards. In this regard, renewable energy sources (RES) are globally accepted potential candidates for maintaining inexhaustible, clean, and reliable electricity with a supplementary feature of economic prospect. The efficiency of power distribution at reduced cost to the consumers can be further enhanced by introducing a two-way billing system so-called net-metering which has the potential to overcome issues such as voltage regulation, power blackouts, overstressed grid and need for expensive storage systems thereby making it beneficial for the grid and the end user. This envisioning has encouraged the Government of Pakistan to install net-metering infrastructure at places which accommodate surplus renewable energy reserves. According to the Electric Power Act 1997, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) issued the net-metering rules and regulations in September 2015 by the endorsement of Federal Government which allowed the distribution companies in Pakistan to buy surplus electricity units generated by the consumers in order to partly reimburse the units imported from the utility grid. The aim behind this research work is to promote renewable energy utilization through net-metering mechanism in order to achieve maximum power. The export of units from consumer side to utility grid and vice versa can be made through bidirectional energy meter. In this paper, a solar net-metering analysis has been carried out on ETAP software to determine its benefits in a distribution network. Different scenarios have been investigated, and it is concluded that solar net-metering technique has multiple influential benefits, e.g., improvement in voltage regulation, reduction in transmission and distribution losses, increase in power availability, less billing to consumers, and reduction of loading on utility grid.

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电力公司净计量实践的批判性分析与应用

为了满足家庭、商业和娱乐行业旨在提高生活水平的电力需求，全球的电力基础设施正在快速扩张。在这方面，可再生能源（RES）是全球公认的保持取之不尽用之不竭、清洁可靠的电力的潜在候选者，具有经济前景的补充特征。通过引入一种称为净计量的双向计费系统，可以进一步提高以降低消费者成本为消费者的配电效率，该系统有可能克服诸如电压调节、停电、电网压力过大和需要昂贵的设备等问题。存储系统从而使其对电网和最终用户有益。这一设想鼓励巴基斯坦政府在容纳剩余可再生能源储备的地方安装净计量基础设施。根据 1997 年电力法，国家电力监管局 (NEPRA) 于 2015 年 9 月在联邦政府的支持下发布了净计量规则和条例，允许巴基斯坦的配电公司购买消费者产生的剩余电力。为了部分偿还从公用电网进口的机组。这项研究工作背后的目的是通过净计量机制促进可再生能源的利用，以实现最大功率。可以通过双向电能表将单位从消费者侧输出到公用电网，反之亦然。在本文中，已经对 ETAP 软件进行了太阳能网络计量分析，以确定其在配电网络中的优势。对不同的场景进行了研究，得出的结论是，太阳能网络计量技术具有多种有影响的好处，例如电压调节的改进、输配电损耗的减少、电力可用性的增加、对消费者的计费减少以及负载的减少。公用电网。