'Nepra trying to promote competition-based market'

National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) is trying to promote a competition base electricity market in Pakistan enabling consumers to purchase electricity from the company of their own choice, said Director Consumer's Affairs Engineer Imtiaz Hussain Baloch. He was addressing a meeting of local industrialists and businessmen in Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI) here today.
He said that the fundamental responsibilities of NEPRA is to issue license to power generating companies, fix the electricity tariff and implement NEPRA laws as a regulatory in addition to protecting the rights and interests of end consumers.