Professional Documents
Culture Documents
2. Energy mix:
a. Achieve a more affordable energy balance:
Move away from expensive hydrocarbon (and oil-dominated) imports and more toward the
exploitation of untouched domestic reserves.
b. Embrace coal:
Due to huge indigenous coal reserves Pakistan in short run should try to tap coal energy for
power generation with proper research on coal power plants technology and coal quality to
mitigate environmental impacts.
c. Capitalize on opportunities for natural gas and renewables:
A staged approached can be applied in case of natural gas at first Pakistan should take
advantage of its large reserves of unexploited natural gas alternatives such as tight, shale,
and biogas, and turn to the private sector to kick start tight and shale gas development and
secondly Import of natural gas can also be pursued i.e. 750 km long peace pipeline. The
Pakistani government should also encourage, through duty-free imports, the installation of
solar panels on homes and buildings to serve increasing demand in residential and
commercial sectors. Furthermore, distribution companies should develop the capacity to
take surplus solar power from homes and buildings to help meet their peak power demand.
Additionally, NEPRA should court solar and wind power investors by offering reasonably
priced tariffs.
4. Energy Governance
a. Reduce T&D losses immediately:
Trough technological and efficient equipment induction transmission and distribution losses
should be reduced from currently 20% to 10%.Overhaul Old Transmission Lines and Grid
Stations.
b. Take energy theft more seriously:
Punitive measures, user associations that monitor energy use, conduct audits, and identify
and report electricity along with public awareness drive on national scale will help to curb
the theft problems. Energy conservation through public awareness will also save up to
2500MW according to one study.
c. Ramp up Pakistan’s capacity to explore and develop indigenous energy resources:
Pakistan’s oil, gas, and coal reserves are vastly underexploited. Less than 4 percent of
probable oil reserves and 19 percent of gas reserves have been confirmed, while just 1
percent of coal reserves have been proven. Pakistan should invest in the technology and
infrastructure to tap into these reserves.
5. Institutional Reform
a. Bring more coordination and order to the energy sector:
Policy formation should be more robust and open to public cadres taking into consideration
public demands at each step. Take measures so that red-tapism should not hamper the
policy formation. If such changes are deemed too disruptive or infeasible, Pakistan should
create a chief energy adviser’s office with multi-ministry jurisdiction.
b. Privatize, but slowly and in phases:
Privatization can make energy institutions more effective, because when they are
untethered to the state they will have more incentive to strengthen their technical
capacities and foster accountability.