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Liquefied natural gas (LNG) may be the only solution to the gas crisis in winter. However, it has not worked due to the monopoly of government companies on LNG import, marketing and distribution. Deregulation of any business sparks competition, better service delivery and a boom in relevant sectors. Owing to the monopoly of state-owned firms, competition is absent in Pakistan’s gas sector. The previous Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government managed to import LNG for the first time in country’s history. But it has not grown in terms of increasing the…

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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has recently ordered the federal government to establish an electricity tribunal forthwith. The Appellate Tribunal for electricity sector has been provided in the Electricity Law 2015. It could not be implemented partly due to active and passive opposition from the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) itself. Such opposition was actually ill-placed for Nepra suffered due to the lack of an intermediary fast-action institution like a tribunal. Under the current situation, the affected parties file petitions in higher courts where cases remain pending for years and…

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Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Power Tabish Gauhar has revealed that Prime Minister Imran Khan will personally promise the International Monetary Fund (IMF) a time-bound road map for power sector reforms in return for a freeze on the tariff increase — in fact, lower flat rates for the industrial and SME sectors to spur economic activity and absorb surplus capacity. The prime minister has had a series of meetings on this issue over the last couple of weeks. Mr Gauhar has recently replaced Shahzad Qasim, his former senior colleague at…

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Strong growth of the renewable power sector will be a key driver of energy transition in China, according to BP Energy Outlook 2020, which was released recently. The country is also expected to remain the world’s largest primary energy consumer despite slowing demand growth. BP forecast that energy demand growth in China will slow dramatically compared to past trends, and the growth of industrial energy demand will be concentrated in the emerging world outside of China as energy-and labor-intensive industrial activities are being increasingly relocated from the developed world and…

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Former president Benigno Aquino halted activities six years ago amid territorial disputes with China, which has claimed sovereignty over much of the South China Sea. A 2016 ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration has since dismissed these claims under UN conventions. Under Duterte’s leadership, the Philippines has aligned itself more closely with China since that ruling – despite support offered by the US to back its territorial claims – and discussions over a joint venture between Chinese and Philippine companies to develop offshore hydrocarbon resources are ongoing. Philippines energy…

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