Can Petroleum Policy Reforms Alleviate Pakistan's Power Crisis? An Energy Policy Paper
Article from: OGEL 5 (2013), in Eurasian Energy
Executive Summary
Pakistan is undergoing one of its worst energy crises in history, in the form of electricity and gas load shedding. Power shortages in particular have become a way of life, caused by the exploding growth in demand and the inability of power generation investments to keep up. Pakistan has passed through several phases of surplus capacity and deep deficits, but the current deficit scenario appears to be a long-term problem. This has been the result of a series of planning failures along the energy value chain, from upstream down to downstream. One of the major reasons for the current ...