Solarizing household energy
Electricity tariffs for lifeline customers have increased by 70 percent over the last five years. During the same period, electricity consumption per capita across the board has largely remained flat…
Heatwaves in India drive leading clean-energy state back to coal
A windy monsoon in Karnataka, India’s leading state for clean energy production, last year eased pressure on the local government’s three thermal coal-power plants, as humming wind turbines met power…
Imagineering implementation of energy reforms–Vl
There is no doubt that our energy sector needs to be reengineered to meet the foreseeable challenges in the upcoming decades. This is the key moment to bring about reforms,…
The power and energy crisis
Pakistan’s power and energy crisis has reached crisis proportions. The power sector’s circular debt of Rs2,377 billion – combined with Rs1,400 billion of the gas sector – and Rs600 billion…
Kicking a cheap energy addiction: Part – II
What are the options for Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his team? What Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has not mentioned is the high cost of electricity distribution and the need…
Democratisation of energy
“Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all,” Gandhi said this, and it supports the democratic system of government that we are all familiar with. The…
IMF programme and energy crisis
Pakistan has less than US$3 billion in foreign reserves, enough to finance less than three weeks of imports. It owes more than US$9 billion in principal and interest payments in…
Price falls, red tape curb demand from businesses for German energy subsidy
Take-up by German companies of a government scheme to help with energy costs this winter is likely to be lower than projected due to falling spot prices for gas and…
Let’s conserve energy
The endless spiral of import bills burgeoning the fiscal deficit of Pakistan is leading to somewhat draconian measures by the government, which one may argue are needed to address the…
Energy sector reforms — I
My previous op-ed, summed up Pakistan’s gas supply position vis-à-vis the current demand, prevailing geo-political context, international spot-market under which Pakistan functioned over the last 4 years and the much…
