ISLAMABAD - Officials of National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Monday proposed to the National Assembly’s standing committee on cabinet secretariat that if government was willing to finance, Nepra can produce around four thousand Megawatts of surplus electricity for export. The meeting was headed by Hameed-ullah-Jan Afridi in Islamabad. The Nepra official said that the load-shedding was not the issue of production but it was more of a financial issue.Briefing the meeting, the Nepra official said that country's requirement for energy was 16500 megawatts while the Nepra had capacity to produce 20000 megawatts. The official proposed that the surplus power could be exported.A member of the standing committee raised the issue of inflated electricity bills and said that the billing system should be corrected.Afridi said that if Nepra cannot provide relief to the people then it should stop operating.The standing committee directed the Nepra to present it the details of its agreements with the production and distributing companies in the country.The Nepra official said that generation of electricity would cost between Rs 17 to Rs 20 per unit whereas the generation cost from gas was just over Rs 7 per unit.