Solar power
Solar panel supply and installation in Islamabad and Rawalpindi
Solar installation covers the survey, the panels, the mounting structure, DC and AC wiring, protection and commissioning. A 3kW on-grid system in Islamabad starts near PKR 350,000 complete, and the figure that matters is the one that includes structure and wiring rather than panels alone.
- Typical price
- From PKR 350,000
- How long it takes
- A 3kW to 5kW rooftop is two to three days including commissioning
- Site survey
- Free in Islamabad & Rawalpindi
Size the system from twelve months of bills
Not from roof area and not from a round number. We read a year of units off your IESCO bills, look at when you actually use them, and size against that. Systems sold from roof space alone are routinely oversized by a third, and the extra panels never pay back because you were never going to use the units.
Check the roof before quoting the array
Slab condition, shading from a neighbouring plot or a water tank, and where the structure can be anchored without cracking waterproofing. Afternoon shade from a boundary wall in a tight sector plot can cost more output than a panel upgrade will ever recover, and it is invisible on a satellite view.
Structure, DC side, then AC side
Galvanised structure at the tilt the latitude wants, panels torqued to spec, DC in UV-rated conduit with proper isolators, then the AC side into your board with its own breaker and earthing. Earthing is where cheap installs cut corners and where lightning damage later gets argued about.
Commission with numbers you keep
String voltages, insulation resistance and first-day generation measured and written down. That sheet is your baseline — without it, nobody can say in two years whether the array has degraded or a string has dropped out.
What the price covers. PKR 350,000 covers a complete 3kW on-grid system: panels, inverter, galvanised structure, DC and AC wiring, protection and commissioning. A 5kW lands between PKR 550,000 and 700,000, and 10kW near PKR 1,100,000. Batteries, net-metering application and any roof strengthening are quoted separately and named on the quote.
Included on every visit
- Twelve months of billed units read before sizing anything
- Roof and shading survey, with shade losses stated honestly
- Galvanised mounting structure at the correct tilt
- DC wiring in UV-rated conduit with isolators
- Dedicated AC breaker and proper earthing
- Commissioning sheet with string voltages and first-day output
- Written warranty on workmanship alongside manufacturer warranties
Questions people ask
How long until it pays for itself?
For a household using most of its generation during the day, a well-sized on-grid system typically returns its cost in roughly four to six years at current tariffs — and that range moves every time NEPRA revises them. Be sceptical of any quote promising two years: that arithmetic usually assumes you export everything at the buy-back rate, which is not what actually happens.
Why is another quote so much cheaper?
Nearly always because it prices panels and an inverter and leaves out the structure, the DC conduit, the protection, the earthing and the net-metering application. Ask any cheaper quote to itemise those five lines. Where a quote is genuinely cheaper on the same scope, it is usually a thinner structure — which matters the first time a strong pre-monsoon wind hits the array.
What happens on a cloudy day or in winter?
Output drops, materially. Islamabad's winter yield runs well below the summer figure, and a heavy overcast day can be a fraction of a clear one. An on-grid system simply draws the difference from the grid, which is why sizing against annual units rather than peak day matters — a system sized to cover a July afternoon is oversized for the other nine months.