Simta Foods · Vehari Industrial
1 MW- PANELS
- 594 × JA 715W N-Type Bifacial
- INVERTERS
- 2 × SOLIS S5-GC125K 125 kW
- COMMISSIONED
- —
- MONTHLY SAVING
- PKR 1,900,000
- PAYBACK
- < 8 months
- MY FEE
- 4%, on commissioning
Solar engineering & consultancy · Pakistan
From sunlight
to surge.
Without the markup.
YTECH SOLAR designs, procures and commissions solar power systems across Pakistan — 4MW+ delivered, from single homes to a 1 MW industrial plant. We take zero margin on equipment, show you every original supplier invoice, and charge 4% of project cost — payable only once your system is running.
- Delivered
- 4MW+
- Largest site
- 1 MW
- Margin on equipment
- 0%
- Fee, on commissioning
- 4%
The engineering
What a solar system is, and what it is worth
Two drawings rather than two paragraphs. The first is the hardware chain we specify; the second is the reason we size it the way we do.
How a system converts
Live- Source
- Sunlight
- Array
- 594 × 715 W
- Inverters
- 2 × 125 kW
- Delivered
- 1 MW
Sunlight to DC across the array, DC to AC at the inverter, AC to your machines. Every component we specify — panel, inverter, cable, protection — is chosen for this chain and nothing else.
Drawn from Simta Foods, Vehari — 594 × JA 715 W N-Type bifacial on 2 × SOLIS 125 kW. Specified and commissioned by our founding engineer, qualified in electrical engineering, high-voltage substations.
What actually pays
Net billing- Used on site
- Worth full retail tariff. This is the saving.
- Exported
- Bought back at roughly a third, since Feb 2026.
Since February 2026 exported units earn roughly a third of the old rate. So we size systems against what your site consumes in daylight — not against how much roof you have.
NEPRA Prosumer Regulations 2026 · last verified 29 Jul 2026
How we work
I cut your project cost, get you the right products at the right price, and stay personally available long after the job is done — and I don't charge a rupee until your system is running.
Why now
Your electricity bill stopped being a utility cost
For most of the plants we work with, it is now the largest overhead anyone can actually do something about. Three things changed at once.
- 01
The bill
Grid tariffs have moved far enough, fast enough, that electricity is now a leading line in most industrial overheads rather than a utility cost nobody examined. For a mill or a cold store running through daylight, it is often the largest controllable one.
- 02
The supply
Load-shedding and voltage fluctuation still cost production hours and damage motors. A correctly sized array with the right inverter protection addresses both — which is an engineering outcome, not a saving on a spreadsheet.
- 03
The market
Panel prices have fallen while tariffs have risen, so the arithmetic has genuinely changed. What has not changed is the quality of advice: inflated quotes, wrong products, and nobody accountable once the system is switched on.
Who you are dealing with
An engineer, not a sales office
Every system is designed, specified and commissioned by one qualified electrical engineer who signs off the work and stays reachable afterwards. These are the facts that claim rests on.
Qualification
Electrical engineering
The systems we design are specified and signed off by a qualified electrical engineer, not by a salesperson working from a catalogue.
Background
High-voltage substations
Grid-side experience before solar. It is why the protection, earthing and interconnection side of a project gets the same attention as the array.
Delivered
4MW+ across Pakistan
Industrial, commercial and domestic — from single homes in Lahore to a 1 MW plant in the Vehari Industrial Estate.
Standards
IEC 62116 verified
Anti-islanding is tested at commissioning rather than assumed from a datasheet, and the test result goes into your handover pack.
The open ledger
This is what a project actually costs
Every line is an original supplier invoice you receive a copy of. Our fee sits at the bottom, calculated openly against the total.
Simta Foods · Vehari Industrial Estate
Cost ledger, as the client saw it
- Panels
- 594 × JA 715W N-Type bifacial
- 8,200,000
- Inverters
- 2 × SOLIS 125 kW
- 2,450,000
- Structure
- Aluminium rail, elevated
- 1,680,000
- DC / AC protection
- MCB, SPD, combiner boxes
- 590,000
- Cable and accessories
- 6mm double XLPO DC cable
- 440,000
- Installation and commissioning
- Labour, testing, IEC 62116
- 930,000
Equipment total
14,290,000
Our fee — 4%
Payable once the system is running
571,600
Monthly saving
1,900,000
PKR, against the previous bill
Payback
< 8
months
Capacity, equipment, saving and payback are from the delivered project. The per-line cost breakdown is illustrative pending publication of the original supplier invoices.
Monthly saving
1,900,000PKR
Against the previous WAPDA bill.
Payback
< 8months
On the delivered 1 MW system.
The model
Why our quote is lower than the one you already have
Pakistan's solar market has a trust problem: inflated quotes, hidden margins, wrong products, and nobody accountable once the system is switched on. We work the other way round.
- Trust
One engineer, accountable
Paid only when it works.
One qualified electrical engineer designs your system, specifies every component and signs off the commissioning. Every original supplier invoice reaches you. The fee falls due only once the system is generating — so the incentive to oversize, over-specify or overstate is not merely promised away, it is absent.
- Value
No overhead to fund
No showroom, no sales team.
A dealer has a showroom, a sales force and a stock position, and every one of those is paid for out of the margin on your equipment. There is none of that here. Procurement happens at wholesale market prices from suppliers built up over years, and the saving stays with you rather than covering someone else’s fixed costs.
- Support
The designer answers the phone
Included, not a contract.
Most systems in Pakistan are sold by one party, installed by a second and abandoned by both. Here the engineer who sized the array and commissioned the inverters is the person who picks up three years later — generation checks, warranty claims, and the call when a reading looks wrong.
0%
Zero margin on equipment
We do not sell panels or inverters. Nothing is marked up and no supplier commission is taken. What the equipment costs is what you pay.
100%
Every original invoice
You see every supplier invoice — dated, itemised, in the supplier's name. Procurement happens at wholesale market prices, and you can check them.
4%
Our fee, on commissioning
Four percent of total project cost, invoiced only once your system is installed, tested and generating. If it never runs, we are not paid.
∞
After-sales included
The engineer who designed and commissioned your system is the person who answers the phone afterwards. Included, not a service contract.
The difference
Why two quotes for the same roof never agree
Not because the engineering differs. Because of where the money is, and whether you are shown it. This is the structural difference between buying from a dealer and hiring a consultant.
Equipment price
The usual route A single bundled figure. The margin is inside it and you cannot see how much.
YTECH SOLAR Wholesale, at the original supplier invoice. Nothing added.
What you are shown
The usual route A quotation the seller typed, with brand names and a total.
YTECH SOLAR Every original invoice, dated and itemised, in the supplier's own name.
How the seller earns
The usual route On the spread between the wholesale price and your price.
YTECH SOLAR A stated 4% of project cost. Nothing else, from anywhere else.
When they are paid
The usual route Substantially up front, on order and on delivery.
YTECH SOLAR On commissioning. If the system never runs, the fee is never due.
Component choice
The usual route Whatever is in stock, or whatever carries the best supplier commission.
YTECH SOLAR Specified against your measured load. We hold no dealership to protect.
System sizing
The usual route Sized to fill the available roof, which maximises the invoice.
YTECH SOLAR Sized to your daytime consumption, which is what pays under net billing.
After commissioning
The usual route Sold by one party, installed by a second, supported by neither.
YTECH SOLAR The engineer who designed and commissioned it answers the phone.
We are describing a business model rather than any particular company, and there are dealers in Pakistan who do good work at a fair margin. The point is not that a margin is dishonest — it is that you cannot see this one, and you can see ours.
Delivered
4MW+ delivered across Pakistan
Industrial, commercial and domestic. Simta Foods and DG Khan Cold Storage have both come back for more than one project.
Delivered
4.0MW+
Industrial, commercial and domestic, across Pakistan.
Largest single site
1,000kW
Simta Foods, Vehari Industrial Estate.
Margin taken on equipment
0%
Our fee is 4% of project cost, on commissioning.
Hassan Flour Mill · DG Khan
500 kW- PANELS
- 862 × JA 580W N-Type TOPCon
- INVERTERS
- 4 × SOLIS S5-GC125K 125 kW
- COMMISSIONED
- DEC 2024
- MY FEE
- 4%, on commissioning
Ice Cold Storage · DG Khan
143 kW- PANELS
- 200 × Longi 715W N-Type TOPCon
- INVERTERS
- 1 × Huawei SUN2000-115KTL 115 kW
- COMMISSIONED
- —
- MY FEE
- 4%, on commissioning
Referral
Almost all of this work arrived by word of mouth
Which is the problem this site exists to solve. A referral carries trust that a search result does not, so here is what the referral network actually looks like.
Almost all of this work arrived by referral — from a retired Siemens country head, WAPDA general managers, doctors, entrepreneurs and overseas Pakistanis who sent me to someone they knew.
On how the practice has grown, without advertising Two clients have now come back for a second project: a food manufacturer in Vehari and a cold storage operator in Dera Ghazi Khan. A repeat industrial client is the only review that costs the reviewer anything.
On recurring work The referrals that matter most come from engineers — people who can read a single-line diagram and check whether the protection was specified properly. Those are the hardest clients to satisfy and the ones worth having.
On who the referral network is
How we work
From the first site visit to the call you make three years later
Six stages. Nothing is quoted before stage one has happened, and nothing is invoiced until stage five is complete.
Site assessment
We visit the site, measure your roof or ground area, check your sanctioned load and phase, and read your last twelve months of bills. Nothing is quoted before this happens.
Load profile and shading assessment
Design
The array and inverters are sized against your actual daytime consumption rather than against your roof area. Under net billing that distinction is the difference between a system that pays back and one that exports cheaply.
Single-line diagram and bill of materials
Procurement
Equipment is bought at wholesale market prices from suppliers we have worked with for years. Every invoice reaches you in the supplier's own name, dated and itemised.
Original supplier invoices
Project management
Installation teams we trust, available at 24 hours notice, with our engineer on site for the parts that decide whether a system lasts twenty years — structure anchoring, DC termination and earthing.
Progress photographs and site reports
Commissioning
Testing, anti-islanding verification to IEC 62116, string-level generation checks, and the net metering or net billing application with your distribution company.
Commissioning certificate and test results
After-sales
Generation checks, warranty claims, and the phone call when a reading looks wrong. Answered by the engineer who designed and commissioned the system, not by a call centre.
Warranty register and a direct number
Who we work with
Two kinds of client
Industrial & commercial
Factory and plant owners
Your WAPDA bill has become the largest line in your overheads. You have had two or three quotes that don't agree with each other, and you can't tell which numbers are real. You may have been burned before.
You are handing someone your plant and your money. You get the load analysis, the design, and every invoice — so the decision is yours to check rather than ours to promise.
- Typical
- 100 kW – 1 MW+
- Across
- Punjab and beyond
Domestic
Homes in Lahore
DHA, Bahria Town, Park View, Lake City. You are a doctor, an engineer, a professional or an overseas Pakistani, and you are tired of pricing that changes depending on who you ask.
You want one knowledgeable engineer who will tell you what your house actually needs, buy it at the right price, and still take your call in three years.
- Typical
- 10 – 50 kW
- Across
- Lahore
Equipment & quality
What we put on your roof, and why
Tier-one components, specified against your load — not against whatever carries the best supplier commission, because we do not take one.
- Panels
- JA · Longi · Jinko · Canadian · Trina
- N-Type TOPCon and bifacial. Bifacial earns its premium on a reflective industrial roof and rarely on a domestic one, so it is specified where it pays rather than by default.
- Inverters
- SOLIS · Huawei · GoodWe · Sungrow
- Sized against your daytime load profile, not against panel capacity. Anti-islanding verified to IEC 62116 at commissioning.
- Storage
- Dyness · Pylontech
- LiFePO4 only. Specified where a genuine outage or evening load case exists — under net billing a battery is rarely justified on arbitrage alone.
- Structure
- Aluminium rail · galvanised fixings
- Anchoring and rail spans are set against local wind loading. This is the part of a cheap installation that fails first, and it fails in a storm rather than quietly.
- Protection
- DC/AC MCB · SPD · combiner boxes
- Surge protection on both sides of the inverter and correctly rated isolation throughout. Grid-side experience is the reason this is not treated as an afterthought.
- Cable
- 6mm double-XLPO DC cable
- Double-insulated, UV-stable, sized for the string current with the voltage drop calculated rather than guessed. This is the half of the bill of materials a cheap quote hides.
We hold no dealership and no exclusive supply arrangement with any manufacturer listed here. That is the point — the specification follows the site, and it can change between two projects on the same street.
Where we work
Delivered across Punjab, and beyond it
Industrial and commercial work is taken across Pakistan. Domestic work is concentrated in Lahore, because that is where personal availability after commissioning is a promise we can actually keep.
Every city listed has a delivered project behind it. We don't list places we would merely like to work in.
- Lahore Domestic across DHA, Bahria Town, Park View and Lake City
- Delivered
- Vehari 1 MW at the Industrial Estate — the largest single site
- Delivered
- Dera Ghazi Khan 500 kW flour mill and a 143 kW cold storage
- Delivered
- Rangpur 156 kW on a remote agricultural site
- Delivered
- Sialkot 124 kW industrial
- Delivered
Policy
What changed in February 2026
In February 2026 NEPRA replaced net metering with net billing under the Prosumer Regulations 2026. Under the new regime the units you export are bought back at roughly a third of the old rate, which changes how a system should be sized — self-consumption during daylight now matters far more than export does. The figures are contested and still moving, so we treat them as data with a date on them rather than as a selling point.
Source NEPRA Prosumer Regulations 2026 Last verified 29 Jul 2026
Guides & analysis
The arithmetic, written down
Sizing under the new buyback rate, what payback actually looks like against measured data, and how to read a quotation before you sign it.
- Cost & payback
What industrial solar actually pays back in Pakistan — with real generation data
Payback claims are easy to make and hard to check. Here is 77 days of monitoring data from a 1 MW plant, including the twelve days it was off.
6 min read
- Policy & tariffs
How to size a solar system under net billing — and why bigger stopped being better
Net billing pays about a third of the old rate for exported units. That changes the right system size for most sites — here is the arithmetic.
7 min read
- Buyer protection
How to read a solar quotation in Pakistan without getting caught
Most solar quotations in Pakistan are written to be hard to compare. Here are the specific lines to check, and what a straight answer looks like.
8 min read
Questions
What people ask before they call
If yours isn't here, ask it directly — you'll get the same answer on the phone that you'd get here.
How does a 4% fee work if you take no margin on the equipment?
The fee is the whole business. Equipment is bought at wholesale market prices and you receive every original supplier invoice in the supplier name, so what the equipment cost is what you pay. On top of that total I charge 4%, invoiced only once the system is installed, tested and generating. If it never runs, I am not paid.
What stops you from quietly marking up the invoices?
You get the original invoices, dated and itemised, in the supplier own name — not a summary I typed. Wholesale prices for panels and inverters in Pakistan are checkable, and I expect clients to check them. The model only works if the paperwork survives scrutiny.
Is a small domestic system worth your time?
Sometimes, and I will tell you straight when it is not. Four percent of a small domestic job does not cover the engineering time it deserves, so below roughly 20 kW I will either say so upfront or point you to an installer I trust rather than take the work and under-serve it.
Has net billing killed the payback on solar in Pakistan?
No, but it has changed how a system should be sized. Since February 2026 exported units are bought back at roughly a third of the old rate, so the units that pay are the ones you consume yourself during daylight. A site that runs its load through the day — a mill, a cold store, a factory — still pays back quickly. Sizing to fill a roof no longer does.
What happens after commissioning?
The engineer who designed and commissioned the system is the person who answers the phone afterwards. Generation checks, warranty claims and the call when something looks wrong are included rather than sold as a service contract.
Do you work outside Lahore?
Yes. Delivered projects include Vehari, Dera Ghazi Khan, Rangpur and Sialkot. Industrial and commercial work is taken across Pakistan; domestic work is concentrated in Lahore because that is where I can stay personally available afterwards.
How long does a solar installation take in Pakistan?
For a domestic system, usually two to four weeks from order to commissioning. For an industrial project in the hundreds of kilowatts, six to twelve weeks is realistic — procurement lead time on inverters is normally the constraint rather than installation. The net metering or net billing application with your distribution company runs alongside and can add several weeks on its own.
Who installs the system if you have no staff?
Installation teams I have worked with for years, available at 24 hours notice. I do not carry them on payroll, which is part of why there is no overhead loaded into your equipment price. I am on site personally for the stages that decide whether a system lasts twenty years — structure anchoring, DC termination and earthing — and I commission it myself.
What size system does my factory actually need?
It is set by your daytime load, not by your roof. The starting point is twelve months of bills and your sanctioned load and phase, which tell us how many units you consume between roughly 9am and 4pm. Under net billing those are the units worth generating. A site that runs machinery through the day — a mill, a cold store, an ice plant — can usually justify a system covering most of that daytime draw.
Do I need batteries with a solar system?
Usually not, and I will say so. A battery earns its cost where there is a genuine outage case or an evening load that has to be covered. Under net billing it is rarely justified on arbitrage alone — the spread between what you save and what you would have exported does not pay for LiFePO4 storage over its life. Where storage is specified it is LiFePO4 only, from Dyness or Pylontech.
What warranties come with the equipment?
They come from the manufacturer, not from me, and you get the paperwork. Tier-one panels typically carry a 12-year product warranty and a 25 to 30-year performance warranty; inverters typically 5 to 10 years with an extension available at purchase. I keep the warranty register with expiry dates and handle claims on your behalf as part of after-sales, because a warranty you have to chase alone is worth less than one someone chases for you.
Next step
Talk to us about your site
Send your sanctioned load, roughly what your last few bills have looked like, and how much roof or ground you have. That's enough for us to tell you whether solar is worth it for your site — before either of us spends a day on it.
"I answer my own phone. If I'm on a roof, I'll call you back." The founding engineer
- Phone
- 0312 4945198
- info@ytechsolar.pk