Energy Crisis - Causes,Effects and Solutions

Causes of energy short fall:

1- failure of the last regime to increase electricity:
2- Under utilization of the existing generating capacity:
3- Circular debts:
4.The repeated cutting down in Public Sector Development Program:
5 Other factors:

(i) Line loss:
(ii) Large scale of theft of electricity:
(iv) Over use of energy by transport sector:
(v) Domestic wastage:
(vi) General wastage:
(vii) Corruption and lack of political will in the concerned energy department: 

(B) Effects of energy crunch:

1) Routine life:

2) Industries: Many industrial units have closed and many shifted their installation to Bangladesh. This poor industrial production has ultimately affected the GDP of Pakistan. Downsizing of the workers in industries. Many workers turned jobless. The buying capacity of people has reduced sharply.
→ Rise in the price of commodities.

3) Market: Markets are closed early due to the load shedding. Secondly production cost of commodities have raised.

4) Agriculture: the agricultural land that is dependent on tube well and dug wells, its yielding capacity has sharply reduced due to load shedding. As crops do not get water in time.


5) Strikes and agitation: Due to load shedding many strikes have occurred across the country, destroyed government installations.

6) Low National growth: load shedding has affected the national growth badly. Less progress or no progress at all in all walks of the country. Ultimately, less GDP growth rate.

(C) Measures:

1) immediate measures: Firstly, the problem of circular debt should be solved on proiority basis, in order to enable the power companies to clear their debts. Secondly, the agreement of importing electricity from Iron and Tajikistan needs to be implemented in a quick fashion. The Pak- Iron gas pipe line project needs to be completed on the earliest dates.

2) Mid term plan: First, all the gas and inefficient WAPDA plants should be replaced by more efficient and combined cycle plants. Second, there is an urgent need of modernizing the overloaded transmission and distribution system. The expenditure of updating our electricity system could be recovered in only three years through savings from the line loss.


3) Long term plans:


(i) Dams construction:
(ii) Gas exploration:
iii) Coal:
vi) Wind energy:
v) Solar Energy: