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…
How to conserve energy
Oil imports have decreased by 26 per cent in the first five months of the current fiscal year (July-Nov). Crude oil imports have fallen by 16 per cent, diesel imports…
Energy for the future
Pakistan has a perennial energy deficit, and that deficit keeps on growing. The growth in energy deficit is both a function of underinvestment in energy, incessant subsidies, and inability of…
Pakistan’s energy transition
Pakistan in 2022 became the canary in the mine of climate change. The flood that ravaged one-third of the country this year came from the sky, not from overflowing rivers.…
A bitter cold European winter without Russian energy supplies
As the winter is approaching in Europe, pressure is mounting on the governments by their citizens and industrialists and as a result, European leaders are scrambling to find LNG at…
Energy efficiency
Pakistan faces the worst repercussions of the climate crisis despite its small carbon footprint. The country is geographically connected to the roof of the world with the highest mountain ranges,…
