Energy Crisis in Pakistan

Energy crisis in Pakistan

The moral fiber of any country economic development is dependent upon Energy Resources. It is one of the necessities in our daily life. Energy resources help us in making goods and many other things like in Pakistan the great contributor is Cotton sheets that is a major help in the revenue of the budget of Pakistan.

It is a necessary element in our daily basis living style for example we cant press our cloths without electricity, we cannot drink cold water because our refrigerators are not on, we cant study at night because of electricity and there are many more things which the people’s of Pakistan are  facing nowadays.

On large scale, the industrial departments are dependent upon them, as they can’t run their machinery, the roads looks mysterious when at night there is no street light.

Due to many factors including increase in population, industrial development, advancement of livelihoods and enhancements of manufacturing of households; the demand for electricity has increased and it is increasing hastily in Pakistan. Hence, there is large amount of demand electricity, coal, petrol and diesel.

The government of Pakistan is failed to resolve energy crisis in Pakistan due to its day by day increasing demands.

It is not a problem of 1 year or 2; Pakistanis have been facing this problem for more than 10 years. The situation of Pakistan is getting more crucial in this regard as we've weakened economy and emerging needs of electricity and because of no proper policies it is becoming more unstable.

Other factors involving behind the energy crisis are obsolete facilities, electricity burglary and regular deficiencies of hydro-power, which make situation much and much worse. As a result, there is time to time load shedding plus with high prices bills.

Looking at 2009-10, per capita demand of electricity occurs to loose ground from 0.64% to 3% correspondingly. Daily requirement of energy in Pakistan is round about 15k to 20k MW, but due to lack of resources it is able to achieve only 12k MW. The daily basis shortfall hence becomes 8k MW and that is the main reason of economic destabilization.

By mixing the stocks of different elements, the energy demand is fulfilled. The elements include Gas, Methane, Fat, LPG and Fossil fuel. The resources amount is as followed:

• GAS 43.7%
• Fat 29%
• LPG 1.5%
• Fossil fuel 10.4%

The resources for electricity production are of two types in Pakistan:

Renewable resources those are unlimited and cheap

Non Renewable resources which are limited and expensive

In next discussion, I will discuss these resources and their usage in detail.

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