Syed Akhtar Ali

The energy sector seems to be a double-edged weapon; if you don’t have it, you suffer and if you have it and can’t manage it properly, […]

ISLAMABAD: Only 20% of Pakistan’s population has access to clean piped natural gas (PNG) while the rest use biomass in the form of uplahs and shrubs or […]

ISLAMABAD: Coal power has acquired a bad image, perhaps less due to its pollution dimension and more due to the CO2 emission which produce greenhouse gases, causing […]

Net hydel profits (NHP) must be paid on hydropower generation from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa under a provision that was hastily added into the 1973 constitution. Attempts to […]

It appears that liquefied natural gas (LNG) has emerged from a political controversy as PM Imran Khan visited Qatar last month to get credit terms for […]

ISLAMABAD: Power system losses, according to the latest Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan (HDIP) Report 2017, have reached 19.8%.

PM Imran Khan visited Qatar to get even more LNG on credit, possibly at lower prices. By the time these lines are read, the PM will […]

ISLAMABAD: There are many questions and issues faced by policymakers in the energy sector in Pakistan – what to do with rising energy prices, especially, after devaluation; […]

For the last two or more months, serious problems have emerged in the country’s energy sector and led to the managing directors of two gas companies […]