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 hungry Europe can’t look to US shale to fill any OPEC gap
US shale oil drillers turned from scrappy wildcatters into multi-millionaires over the past two decades, propelling the United States to become the world’s largest producer, but now they are running…
Energy sector —hiding behind the truth
Speaking on the occasion of signing of dollar 3 billion loan by Would Bank to develop energy infrastructure and to support energy efficiency and conservation programmes, federal minister for power Khurram…
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.…
Criticality of energy management
The current government has been able to secure one additional cargo from Qatar for December 2022 and January 2023 and another expected delivery of commitments made by Eni, which means…
Energy market turmoil shakes Europe’s green power plan
Europe’s plan to roughly double renewable power generation by the end of the decade to cut its emissions and reliance on imported Russian fuel is under threat from market turbulence…
GH: A new opportunity to effectively deal with energy challenges?
Hydrogen is not something new. It is being used for more than a century. It is Green Hydrogen (GH) that is new. Hydrogen is an energy resource, a clean one…
What will the new energy policy be?
A PML-N led coalition government recently came into power following the infamous ouster of former prime minister Imran Khan. The new government was instantly riddled with a long list of…
Charter of energy?
As Pakistan suffers yet another ‘energy crisis’, it is worth asking what should be done to avoid history repeating itself all too frequently. To be fair, the recent commodity super…
