Independent power (or pollution) producers? Electricity reforms and IPPs in Pakistan

Qudrat‐Ullah, Hassan

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2015.02.018

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“…Price fluctuations in the international oil markets increase the costs of electricity generation, creating serious issues for the Government and forcing the power sector into a vicious financial crisis. The supply-demand gap in 2015 reached the range of 4,800-7,000 megawatts (Kessides, 2013; Imran and Amir, 2015; Qudrat-Ullah, 2015), with the major cause of shortage being a lack of investment and political instability, hindering the development of massive coal or hydropower projects in the country (Ali and Anjum Shah, 2012; HDIP, 2016).…”

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The nexus of electricity access, population growth, economic growth in Pakistan and projection through 2040

Rehman

2019

IJESM

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Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between electricity access, population growth and economic growth in Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach Phillips–Perron unit root test was applied to check the stationarity of the variables and an Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach to co-integration was used to investigate the causality link between the study variables. Finally, a projection method was applied to check the future trend of the variables. Findings The study results show the long-term connections among the variables; further, the results illustrate that the electricity access to the urban population and the urban population growth has a significant impact on the economic growth, while the electricity access to the rural population and the rural population growth has a negative impact on the economic growth in Pakistan. Research limitations/implications The electricity sector needs further attention from the Government of Pakistan to boost the production from different energy sources, such as oil, gas, solar, nuclear and hydropower to be able to fulfill the country’s growing demand. Originality/value By using the ARDL bounds testing approach to co-integration, this study addressed the literature gap regarding electricity access, population growth and economic growth in Pakistan.

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The nexus of electricity access, population growth, economic growth in Pakistan and projection through 2040

Rehman

2019

IJESM

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“…The introduction of private sector was a good step forward but these thermal based independent power plants (IPPs) proved to be detrimental in the long-term, as IPPs failed to deliver cheap electricity to the consumers with increase in oil prices in international markets [38,39]. This problem got worse, when the government under-estimated the future trend in global oil prices and began providing hefty subsidies to the consumers.…”

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“…The government was left with no other option except to regulate the electrical-load demand by 'load-shedding'. The power-crisis emerged again by the end of 2005 and the average hourly power gap between power supply and demand reached upto 4500 MW in 2010, 6620 MW in 2012, 5200 MW in 2013 and currently 4743 MW during the peak summer season [3,6,39,40].…”

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Features of fully integrated renewable energy atlas for Pakistan; wind, solar and cooling

Ashfaq

Ianakiev

2018

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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A fully integrated renewable energy atlas is presented which provides the wind and solar photo-voltaic (PV) power generation potential as well as cooling demand for Pakistan at a temporal resolution of 1-hr and spatial resolution of 14x14 km 2. The proposed atlas uses weather based modelling for calculating renewable power generation time-series and the power-demand modelling is performed using real hourly electrical-load demand, conventional power generation and power consumption data for the year 2016. It has been found that Pakistan has much higher potential for the wind power generation than solar (PV) power generation and very good potential for the concentrated solar power. Furthermore, the optimum wind/solar power mix suggests that 95% of wind power generation and 5% of solar (PV) power generation leads to the least amount of power-shortfall. It is envisioned that the integration of renewable energy with cooling sector can be instrumental in overcoming Pakistan's electrical power-crisis. The current power-shortfall of 38.36 TWh can be resolved by installing rated wind and solar (PV) power generation capacity of 10.4 GW and 882 MW, respectively.

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“…Energy consumption by oil source in Pakistan has also decreased over the years however, the energy production from oil increased from the year 2005 to 2015. The ZuhaibuddinBhutto 4 Syed Ali Raza Shah 5 5 Mechanical Engineering Department, Balochistan University of Engineering and Technology, Khuzdar Pakistan is the sixth populous country in the world and its annual population growth rate is 2% per year. In [5], with moderate GDP, urbanization, industrialization, and an increase in per capita income, electricity consumption increased substantially in the last two decades.…”

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Evaluation of Oil-Based Power Generation of Pakistan. SWOT-Delphi Approach

Abbasi

Harijan

Abbasi

et al. 2021

SJET

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Pakistan is heavily dependent on imported fuel for power generation. Depending on imported fuel has not only increased GHG emissions, but it has also put a burden on the national exchequer and raised apprehensions on energy security. This paper thus investigates the consequences of oil-based power generation on the economy, environment, and energy security of Pakistan. SWOT-Delphi approach has been adopted. The study discovered that the use of imported oil for power generation is detrimental to the economy, environment, and energy security of Pakistan. It further suggests that Pakistan should immediately abandon oil-based power generation and explore green energy alternatives for its sustainable economic growth. This study uses a hybrid model that combines strength, weakness, opportunity, and threat (SWOT) analysis with the Delphi method.

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Independent power (or pollution) producers? Electricity reforms and IPPs in Pakistan

Cited by 43 publications

References 34 publications

The nexus of electricity access, population growth, economic growth in Pakistan and projection through 2040

The nexus of electricity access, population growth, economic growth in Pakistan and projection through 2040

Features of fully integrated renewable energy atlas for Pakistan; wind, solar and cooling

Evaluation of Oil-Based Power Generation of Pakistan. SWOT-Delphi Approach

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