Alternating Current: Baltic Electricity Plan Turns Tables On Russia
When Lithuania inaugurates two electrical links to the West on Monday, it will launch a process that will reduce its reliance on Russian electricity, and one day could make Russia…
Electricity tariffs: full cost recovery model no longer sustainable
In the energy sector, nothing seems to be working to increase consumption on the grid. The concept of full cost recovery from the consumer is fundamentally flawed and is exacerbating…
ISMO: A game-changer for Pakistan’s electricity market?
In a significant step toward reforming Pakistan’s power sector, the Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCoE) recently approved the formation of the Independent System and Market Operator (ISMO). This move is…
Electric Vehicles come to Pakistan
Minister for Finance Muhammad Aurangzeb claimed at the launching ceremony of BYD, a Chinese company globally regarded as the frontrunner in the manufacture of electronic vehicles (EVs), in partnership with…
IPPs: currents of discontent
With the recent increase in electricity tariffs, there is renewed debate over the rationality of capacity payment charges (CPC) to independent power producers (IPPs). Previously, only a few voices raised…
The future is electric
There has been incessant chatter regarding the establishment of an oil refinery in Pakistan — to replace aging infrastructure. Every few weeks there is noise regarding a refinery policy, or…
Restructuring electricity tariffs
The power value chain is a labyrinth, where an intervention at one end can result in a mix of intended and unintended consequences at the other. Electricity tariffs at the…
Electricity tariffs
In Pakistan, it is a known fact that electricity is costly as compared to other countries of the region and its cost is ever inflating, but it is not the…
A plan for electricity prices
There is a new government in place. Similar to previous governments, this one also does not have any plan in place to arrest economic stagnation, and move towards any modicum…
Renewable electricity revolution
Pakistan has the potential to double its electrical power generation per capita within three to five years and simultaneously achieve stable and reduced electricity prices. The country’s entire national electricity…
