Renewable Energy Application

in Pakistan
Potential and Barriers
Bernhard Meyhoefer
Principal Advisor

GIZ-Renewable Energy and Energy

Efficiency (REEE) Programme
House No 11B, Street No 50,
F-8/4, Islamabad,
Pakistan

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Energy and Power Situation in
Pakistan

Energy and Power requirements

in the future for Pakistan

Potential Renewable Energy

Sources in Pakistan

Barriers for the Development of

Renewable Energy Projects

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Primary Energy Supplies of Pakistan
Total Primary Energy Supply 63 MTOE (HDIP-Energy Year book-2008-09)
Hydro Nuclear
Electricity Electricity
Coal 11% 1%
9% The Pakistan per
Oil capita energy
31% consumption (0.36)
LPG
1% TOE is one fifth of the
world average of 1.77
TOE (IAE 2008)

Gas
47%

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Installed Power Generation Capacity of Pakistan
:

WAPDA Thermal 6441 MW

Hydel 6464 MW WAPDA

Thermal
IPPs-Thermal
33%
Nuclear 462 MW 32%

IPPS (Thermal) 6154 MW

Total 19521 MW

Nuclear
The per capita electricity 2%
consumption 402kWh is less than
WAPDA Hydel
one sixth of the world average of 33%
2,516 kWh (IEA 2008)

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Electric Power Demand (2007-2025) Pakistan
120000

101478
100000

80000 72169
MW

60000
44903
35413
40000

22353
20000

17328
0
2007 2010 2013 2016 2019 2022 2025 2028

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 Energy Mix Plan Projections (Vision 2030-PC,GoP)
400
361.31
Million Ton of Oil Equivalent (MTOE)

350 5% of the Power

Consumption
300 Nuclear
255.37

250 Renewable

177.35 Hydro
200
Coal
150 120.18
Natural
79.39 Gas
100
Oil
50.8
50

0
2004 2010 2015 2020 2025 2030
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Indigenous Energy Projection (Vision 2030, Planning Commission)

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Renewable Energy Potential of Pakistan

 Hydropower
Documented potential : 51700 MW including
large Hydros source PPIB, MoW&P

 Solar PV
Pakistan receives one of the best solar
irradiation in the world
average solar irradiation is 5-7kWh/m2/day
It can produce over a Million MW of Solar PV
electricity provided the adequate space for
installation (Source: NREL-USAID- study)

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 Renewable Energy Potential of Pakistan( Cont…..)
 Wind Power
Total wind power potential : over 300,000 MW
(Source NREL-USAID study)

 Solar Thermal
average solar irradiation 5-7 kW/m2/day
It can produce thousands of MW from Thermal
Solar Power …exact figure is not yet documented

Strong irradiation can be used for solar water

Heaters (Households as well as Industrial
applications)

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Wind and Solar Energy Maps of Pakistan

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 Renewable Energy Potential of Pakistan( Cont…..)

 Biomass
Estimated potential of biogas production: 8.8 to 17.2 billion
m3 (equiv. to 55 to 106 TWh of energy equal to Pakistan current total
power requirements)
Additionally an estimate electricity production from biogas:
5700 GWh (6.6% of Pakistan current power generation)
Source: Study of Energy Economics and Policy ETH Zurich

 Other Sources like Geo Thermal etc. Potential exists but so

far not properly evaluated and documented

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Barriers to the Development of RES
 Policy Challenges
Lack of Competition with conventional energy---
(economic incentives e.g. feed-in-tariff, time
consuming and long licensing procedures, exclusion
of external costs on non RES, etc.
 Poor Infrastructure and Market Access
RES power evacuation requires grid reinforcement,
adequate grid codes and related infrastructure, which
means investment in power infrastructure allowing
RES into the national grid

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 Barriers to the Development of RES (Cont…..)

 Institutional Barrier
coordination and aligned decisions between relevant
agencies of GoP required (AEDB, NEPRA, MoW&P, MoP&NRS
etc.) to improve investment in RES

 Information base and technical capacity

Shortage of technical information (e.g. wind speed data,
sunshine data, etc)
Shortage of technical professional and service companies
(consultants, contractors, equipment suppliers etc.)

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Barriers to the Development of RES (Cont…..)

 Financial Barrier and lack of investors

confidence
Availability of adequate funds and financial
incentive schemes for RES, Power circular debt,
Country security and political risks
 Lack of social awareness
Inadequate awareness of general public about
RES advantages and technology issues

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 THANK YOU
FOR
YOUR ATTENTION

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