Month: December 2020

In a surprise move, Pakistan has abandoned plans to build 27GW of coal power plants between 2030 and 2047, and will invest in renewable energy instead.The announcement was made by Imran Khan, Pakistan’s prime minister, during a virtual gathering of global leaders. He told the Climate Ambition Summit 2020 on Saturday: “We have already scrapped two coal power projects that were supposed to produce 2.6GW of energy. We have replaced them with hydroelectricity.” He added: “We have also decided that by 2030, 60% of all energy produced in Pakistan will…

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Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) (now K-Electric) has an interesting history. In 1913, it was formed as a power generation and distribution company in the private sector to meet the power needs of small port town of Karachi. The year 1947 witnessed a dramatic change in the demography of Karachi. In 1952, the government nationalized KESC in order to facilitate the much-needed investment in its infrastructure. Till early 1980s KESC performed exceptionally well in meeting the growing industrial, commercial and residential demands: eight new generating plants were added, with a…

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ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister and minister for petroleum Shahid Khaqan Abbasi told a private news channel on Friday that despite increasing gas demand in winter, the PTI government did not float tenders, and inflicted Rs17 billion losses on the country through purchase of 12 cargo ships. He said if electricity would be produced through diesel, it would cost the country dearly. He said had the government issued tenders on time, it would have been able to purchase cheap LNG. He said the world was requesting Pakistan to purchase gas for…

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ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to Prime Minister Nadeem Babar said on Friday Pakistan was paying Rs84.3 million per day because of ill-conceived agreements of the previous government. Speaking in a private channel programme, he said that the terminal was being paid in full for 10 months, but no gas was received. He claimed that it had become hard to supply cheap gas to domestic users due to the previous government’s agreements. Now they have to pay at least Rs1,400 per month, instead of Rs250-300, he added. While conceding that the country…

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Lahore: Energy experts have highlighted major issues and challenges on the development of electric vehicles (EVs) which included higher prices and barriers in the availability of the grids along the major highways. One day CPD training was conducted by Energy Training and Research Center (ETRC) Lahore on November 28, 2020, on “electric vehicles and energy storage”. Dr Izza Anwer was the resource person for Electric Vehicles and Energy Expert Engr. Faiz Bhutta was the resource person on Energy Storage and Businessman Mir. Zaffar Jabbar was the presenter on practical issues…

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