Abstract
Pakistan is going through the worst energy crisis over a decade. The hide and seek of electricity have threatened lives in all sectors of Pakistan. To cope up with this issue, the National Power Policy 2013 of Pakistan was formulated. The main problems faced by the national energy sector are supply-demand gap, highly expensive generation of electricity from sustainable energy recourses, incompetent power production, transmission and distribution system, power and transmission losses, lack of production of electricity from renewable energy recourses, and misuse of electricity and electricity theft. The Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) of the policy are discussed in this paper. The SWOT analysis of national power policy 2013 gives a better solution to the government regarding current and future energy needs. This paper presents the formulated actions such as comprehensive energy strategy; up-gradation of existing transmission and distribution systems; development of indigenous resources and energy mix systems; productions at low price electricity by low price fuels; electricity generation from renewable energy recourses; structural change in industry; subsidies to private sectors generation and compliance with environmental standard. This further enlightens the adoption of institutional and human capacity building by the energy sector for the betterment of the country.
Highlights
Energy is the hot line of life at planet earth
The per capita impression of climate revolution on the millions of Pakistanis is very high in comparison to lesser per capita stake of global Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions (Abas, Kalair, Khan, & Kalair, 2017)
Power Potential from tidal current stations is more than energy converter (WEC) devices which in turn is more than osmotic, ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) and ocean thermoelectric generators (OTEG) technologies (N Khan, Kalair, Abas, & Haider, 2017)
Summary
Energy is the hot line of life at planet earth. Depletion of oil, sustainability, macroclimate modifications and environmental concerns lead towards obligatory energy shift from molecular fossil fuels and atomic reactors towards renewable energy resources (N. Khan, Kalair, Abas, Kalair, & Kalair, 2018). As Pakistan has; Huge demand and supply gap make power sector very attractive for investors Large market of potential customers Council of common interest to get consensus of all stake holders The government has some new business models which allow the generation companies to sell their electricity to private sectors, DISCOs and NTDC. If these models are implemented successfully due to these models the price of electricity will be reduced. Following power plants produces the electricity of a few capacities as described in the table 1, which is not enough as compared to the potential of all renewable energy resources
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