Pakistan no longer faces power generation shortage, says power minister

Power-sector

Pakistan no longer faces an electricity generation shortage but must invest in battery storage and grid flexibility to manage surplus solar power and meet rising evening demand, Federal Minister for Energy (Power Division), Sardar Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari, said on Tuesday. “Let me be very direct about where we stand. Pakistan does not have a generation problem anymore… What we have is a flexibility problem. The inability to move abundant midday solar energy into the evening peak,” said Leghari while addressing the Solar Storage Flexibility 2026 (SSF26) Conference in Islamabad.…

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