The solution to Pakistan’s energy crisis

The power crisis is getting worse and various short-term solutions being offered are not the answer. Wapda’s chairman’s assessment that the power shortage will last until 2018 is optimistic when the increase in demand over the next seven years is factored in.

The power shortage is harmful to the country’s economy and it is pulling down Pakistan’s GDP growth. The funds spent on import of power generators and their fuel is an enormous drain on the economy. Larger industries can afford power generators, but small/medium enterprise, which are any nation’s primary growth engine, cannot. We need a solution to take care of Pakistan’s power requirements for the next 20 years. Expensive import-based, oil-run power generation is not the answer. These have already increased Pakistan’s fuel import bill. Gas based projects are also not the answer as the country’s gas supply is limited.

According to me if they started to build the plants to produce the electricity from the coal it will really go cheap and we do not have to spend for electricity in other ways. It is really alarming that Pakistan has got so much coal that we started to generate electricity through coal we can generate it upto next 500 years. At first they observed that their will be enough coal to make 300 years of electricity but when they estimated practically they came to know that we have more of it. We must start thinking about it before anybody else do or before these idiots sell coal to earn money.