Syed Akhtar Ali

August 16, 2023

Pakistan mineral outlook

Recently, an important conference, ‘Pakistan Mineral Summit’, has been organised in Islamabad by the Petroleum Division. Top national and international dignitaries and a large number of […]
August 10, 2023

Solar PV indigenization: strategy and scope

Solar energy is the energy of present and future. Pakistan is importing almost all of the solar equipment from abroad, mostly China. China is the production […]
August 1, 2023

Reducing rising electricity tariff? — III

In the previous space, we focused on immediate financial restructuring solutions for enabling reduction in electricity tariff. In this space, we will briefly discuss other avenues […]
July 31, 2023

Prospects of expanding solar PV capacity

ISLAMABAD: The government has ambitious programmes for installing solar PV capacities. Fossil-based electricity is expensive, has availability issues and requires foreign exchange, which we don’t have. […]
July 26, 2023

Reducing rising electricity tariff?—II

LIBOR has gone up; thus a case for reduction of this margin suitably. Second solution is increase in the repayment period. In the power sector, debt […]
July 23, 2023

Reducing rising electricity tariff?-I

NEPRA (National Electric Power Authority) has increased electricity base tariff by Rs 4.96 per unit from Rs 24.82 per unit to Rs 29.78 per unit. It […]
July 12, 2023

Towards biogas policy

Biogas has acquired a new fillip in the wake of the Ukraine conflict in Europe. The latter wants to acquire independence from imported gas from Russia. […]
July 6, 2023

And now Hydrogen from Earth

A new source of Hydrogen has been discovered recently. It has been named Natural/White Hydrogen. It is extracted from earth crust through drilling as Natural Gas […]
June 26, 2023

Power plant retirement policy

There are plans to retire 19 power plants of an aggregate capacity of 7339 MW as per IGCEP (Integrated Generation Capacity Expansion Plan) in the period […]