Residential Demand for Electricity in Pakistan

Nasir, Muhammad; Tariq, Muhammad; Arif, Ankasha

doi:10.30541/v47i4iipp.457-467

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“…Policymakers should be fully aware of future electricity use projections so that they can take appropriate steps to close the gap. Various studies have been conducted focusing on the needs of Pakistan's electricity sector [31,32], electricity sources, and their residential consumption [33,34].…”

Section: The Current Electricity Situation In Pakistanmentioning

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An empirical analysis of rural and urban populations’ access to electricity: evidence from Pakistan

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Background: This study explores the electricity access to rural and urban populations and its impact on the economic growth in Pakistan. Methods: An autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach was applied, and a co-integration test was used to investigate the dynamic causality relationships between the study variables. By using this testing approach, this study filled the literature gap regarding the access of rural and urban population to electricity in Pakistan. Results: The tests shed light on the long-run relationship among the variables, whereas the results revealed that the access of both rural and urban populations to electricity had a positive and significant effect on economic growth. Conclusions: According to these findings, we can conclude that Pakistan should pay further attention to increasing its electricity production from different sources, including not only hydroelectric, solar, wind, oil, gas, and biomass but also fewer and fewer nuclear sources, in order to fulfill the country's demands on its way to a future of sustainable development.

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An empirical analysis of rural and urban populations’ access to electricity: evidence from Pakistan

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“…This is representative of the fact that in the short run we cannot work without electricity. Nasir, Tariq, and Arif (2008) conducted a study on the residential demand for electricity in Pakistan. The study was conducted to measure the elasticity of electricity demand in Pakistan based on the income and household sizes, for the years 1979-2006, using time series data.…”

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Pakistan’s Electricity Demand Analysis 1975-2016

Sarwar¹,

Hanif²

2018

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The problem of energy is one that has plagued the economic growth of Pakistan for decades; the resulting domestic pressure has often led to the misallocation of resources, and therefore should be studied extensively for evidence based policy recommendation. The study in hand aims to envelope and analyze approximate factors responsible for determining electricity demand in the country. The study analyzes the aggregate demand for electricity in Pakistan from 1975-2016, by considering log-run climatic variable affecting electricity demand. The ADF, the Johansen Cointegration, and the ARDL techniques have been applied for the estimation of parameters and analysis. The scientific analysis found that in the short run and long run number of consumers, income (real GDP per capita) square of income and stock of appliances have a significant relationship with the demand of electricity. Where all significant relationships in the long run have a positive relationship with the demand apart from the square of income which may suggest a shift towards alternate means of energy production with a long term sustained growth in income. While, price is found to be insignificant determinant of Empirical Economic Review electricity demand in both short run and long run, which reveals that electricity is considered a necessity by Pakistan's electricity consumers. In the short run number of consumers, income, squared income, and stock of appliances, all have significant positive relationships with demand, and temperature has an insignificant positive relationship in the short run, but a significant positive relationship in the long run.

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“…17 Proxied by electricity generation. 18 Price index is used as a control variable in electricity demand equation because increase in prices of electricity can cause a change in demand for electricity by the consumers [Nasir, et al (2008); Alter and Shabib (2011)]. 19 Engle-Granger test also pointed towards the existence of two-way causality.…”

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“…yet literature in Pakistan largely lacks in this dimension. Most of the studies estimating energy demand equation [Chaudhary (2010) ;Nasir, et al (2008); Khan and Qayyum (2009)] do not take temperature as an explanatory variable and in case the relationship has been recognised [Jamil and Ahmed (2011)] further exploration of the subject, in terms of analysis of impact of climatic changes, has not been undertaken. A recent study [Ali, et al (2013)] looks at impact of climate change on electricity demand considering the whole of Pakistan altogether.…”

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Impact of Climate Change on Electricity Demand: A Case Study of Pakistan

Mahmood¹,

Saleemi²,

Amin³

2022

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The energy sector is sensitive to changing weather patterns and Pakistan is one of those countries where temperature rise induced by climate change is expected to be above the world average. In this backdrop the present study aims at finding the impact of climate change on electricity demand in Pakistan at the regional and national level. Using monthly data on temperatures to find heating and cooling degree days, the relationship between monthly electricity demand and temperature is explored which is then used to find the impact of projected climate change on electricity demand. The results suggest surging peak loads in summer season due to climatic effect which calls for capacity instalments over and above that needed to cater to rise in electricity demand attributable to economic growth. JEL Classification: Q47, Q54 Keywords: Energy, Climate Change, Electricity Demand, Degree Days, Pakistan

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Residential Demand for Electricity in Pakistan

Cited by 29 publications

References 14 publications

An empirical analysis of rural and urban populations’ access to electricity: evidence from Pakistan

An empirical analysis of rural and urban populations’ access to electricity: evidence from Pakistan

Pakistan’s Electricity Demand Analysis 1975-2016

Impact of Climate Change on Electricity Demand: A Case Study of Pakistan

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