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Nepra’s expanded role can resolve energy crisis: SDPI
By Technology Times at September 2, 2012 | 6:05 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The inefficient electricity production and chronic line losses have been the root cause of the energy crisis in Karachi Electric Supply company (KESC) mostly because of inept national power regulator NEPRA, reveals a recent study conducted by Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI). “The only way out of this crisis is to invest and buy more...
Water crisis looming over Pakistan
By Technology Times at August 13, 2012 | 2:08 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Water crisis is fast looming over Pakistan which has raised alarm regarding water storage mechanism. “Water will be a major limiting factor in Pakistan,” remarked Saleem Shaikh, Deputy Director at the Ministry of Climate Change in Islamabad, adding this critical situation has raised the alarm that water storage simply hasn't kept up with more...
Oil mafia held responsible for Pak energy crisis
By Technology Times at August 7, 2012 | 12:13 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The oil refineries are reluctant to produce clean energy petroleum products according to minimum international standard Euro-II, which has shifted the entire burden on the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources. A crucial meeting of oil refineries, officials of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources and Ministry of Climate Change has more...
Pakistan’s energy crisis and remedy
By Technology Times at July 30, 2012 | 6:40 pm | 0 Comment
Via Daily Times PEOPLE IN Pakistan are suffering from energy crisis, due to lopsided priorities, poor management and lack of accountability. The sad state of affairs is that despite having enormous renewable resources of energy, the country is forced to import a huge amount of hydrocarbon to meet its energy needs. In 2001, the country had 4,000 megawatts of excess more...
Gas crisis hitting farm yields hard
By Technology Times at July 23, 2012 | 2:32 pm | 0 Comment
By Samz PA THE RECENTLY announced government policy to divert natural gas towards the energy sector and curtail it for Urea manufacturing and other sectors is a decision which may have serious consequences for the agriculture sector and further discourage the investors. The natural gas is a fossil fuel and it will ultimately deplete, this is all the more reason to more...
Averting energy crisis
By Technology Times at July 2, 2012 | 9:36 pm | 0 Comment
EVERY YEAR in winter people are promised to overcome power loadshedding, and then every year in summer they have a naked excuse by the government. This year, too, the government has played the same. Among many of their unfathomable ideas, one is to ask the commercial sector to shut down their business during their peak hours. The others include displaying a unique more...
CNG: An artificial crisis?
By Technology Times at June 18, 2012 | 4:38 pm | 0 Comment
THE GOVERNMENT is promoting the use of LPG as comparatively low-priced fuel. Every other day LPG rates are going down. With this reduction the government wants to attract more and more people towards LPG. It reminds me of the campaign for promotion of CNG. At that time it was told that this environment-friendly fuel is cheaper. Many people invested in the CNG sector, more...
Solar energy – a solution to crisis
By Technology Times at June 2, 2012 | 1:02 pm | 0 Comment
By Muhammad Rahimuddin WE ARE fortunate to live in a country that offers a multitude of natural resources yet to be harnessed for their entire potential. Arguably the most important of these, with reference to the present atrocious energy crisis and the intensifying effects of climate change, are the renewable sources of energy. It is imperative that not only the more...
Solving Pakistan’s energy crisis
By Technology Times at April 16, 2012 | 3:12 pm | 1 Comments
By Rizwan Ghani OUR PRIME minister has said that it is difficult to overcome country’s energy crisis in immediate term but there is still hope. Instead of spending billions on energy sector, Pakistan needs to make clear and transparent policies on renewable so that public and private sectors can make necessary investments. Pakistan can have wind energy on lines of more...
Energy conference falls flat to overcome power crisis
By Technology Times at April 14, 2012 | 3:24 pm | 0 Comment
SPECIAL REPORT IBD: Pakistan is fast heading towards the worst kind of energy crisis in the coming summer season when the power shortfall would certainly cross the figure of 6000MW while ironically the political leadership has not come up with any tangible solution to overcome the prevailing crisis, which has shattered the national economy, disrupted the routine life more...
Biogas, an answer to Pakistan’s energy crisis
By Technology Times at April 2, 2012 | 3:08 pm | 0 Comment
By Imran Adnan PAKISTAN IS spending almost 20 per cent of its foreign exchange on fossil fuels imports. Annually $7 billion is being eaten away in import of conventional energy resources that is equivalent to 40 per cent of total imports by the country, but the country still lagging far behind in tapping the vast potential of alternate energy resources. A research more...
Energy crisis and fuel policy
By Technology Times at April 2, 2012 | 3:00 pm | 0 Comment
According to reports, the petroleum policy 2012 has been formulated and is now going through approval by stakeholders and other processes. Such policy being framed on a yearly basis should, in fact, be ready in all respects and announced in December every year. It should be done to give all interested parties ample time to go through its provisions and submit their more...
Water crisis in Pakistan agriculture
By Technology Times at March 17, 2012 | 12:04 pm | 0 Comment
Via Pakistan Economist WATER IS an important component of life. Three-quarters of the fresh water on the planet is held in the polar icecaps and glaciers and so is unavailable for use. Many parts of the world are confronted with water scarcity, for both irrigation and human needs. Some 70 per cent of the water, people use, goes to irrigation. Since 1950, the amount more...
Mismanagement behind fertilizer crisis!
By Technology Times at March 17, 2012 | 11:59 am | 0 Comment
THE PERSISTING natural gas shortage in Pakistan indirectly inflicted heavy loss to the national agriculture sector during the year 2011 when the natural gas supply to fertilizer plants remained drastically low or suspended forcing these plants to hardly produce 4.9 million tons of urea against an installed capacity of 6.9 million tons. In financial terms, the natural gas more...
EU keen to resolve Pak energy crisis
By Technology Times at March 13, 2012 | 1:06 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: In order to help Pakistan come out of the persistent power crisis, the European Union (EU) is keen on investing in the power sector in Pakistan, particularly the Munda Dam, and the development of micro hydel projects in far-flung areas of the country. “EU has planned to establish community-based hydro projects in 1,000 Union Councils of Malakand and more...
Tidal power: solution to energy crisis
By Technology Times at February 6, 2012 | 12:25 pm | 0 Comment
Presently, Pakistan is confronted with a power crisis due to reduction in conventional sources of energy. There is a wide gap between demand and supply of electricity. The need for exploring alternative environmental-friendly and renewable energy resources has, therefore, become more important. Tidal power is the clean and white energy technology, which is available at no more...
Steps needed to overcome energy crisis
By Technology Times at January 16, 2012 | 4:12 pm | 0 Comment
IT SEEMS that the government has no short-and long-term solution to the shortage of natural gas. The shortage has paralysed life of the people. The delay in implementing the Pakistan Iran gas pipeline project, which was initiated 10 years ago, will take another four or five years to complete. Owing to the wrong policy of the ministry of petroleum and natural resources, more...
Samar unveils plan to end gas crisis
By Technology Times at January 7, 2012 | 1:55 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Member of the Science and Technology Planning Commission, Dr Samar Mubarakmand has said that the gas shortage would be end within a year through coal reserves. “Pakistanhas enough coal reserves through which we could daily produce 50-60 million cubic feet gasifier, which will end the gas shortage from the country,” Dr Samar told the media. To a more...
