Articles

December 11, 2020

CTBCM: Will it promote competition?

Competitive wholesale and retail markets are aimed at encouraging power supplies and investments and bring prices down. National Electric Power Authority (Nepra) has approved CTBCM-Competitive Trading […]
December 11, 2020

The smog season

Smog is back, in parts of Sindh and almost all of Punjab. Smog causes ENT sicknesses, can worsen existing heart and lung problems and causes eye […]
November 29, 2020

Towards competitive gas market 2.0

ISLAMABAD: Competition and privatisation are the buzz words for economic growth and modernisation. Privatisation has had a chequered history in Pakistan. Lack of a developed private […]
November 15, 2020

Scope of expanding power tariff incentives

ISLAMABAD: The government has announced an incentive package for industrial consumers of electricity with the aim of reducing the cost of production and thus increasing industrial […]
November 9, 2020

Dealing with the gas crisis

The writer is a former member of the Energy Planning Commission and author of ‘Pakistan’s Energy Issues: Success and Challenges’. Local gas production has finally started […]