Report by Engineering Post
The federal government was undertaking several strategic initiatives under the National Economic Transformation Plan (URAAN Pakistan) for enhancing energy security, sustainability, and efficiency during the ongoing financial year 2025-26.
These initiatives were closely aligned with the achievements of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Pakistan’s climate commitments, Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), and strategies for resilience and adaptation.
These key policies, reforms and programmes, inter alia, included the National Electricity Plan 2023-27 which focuses on the key objectives i.e. diversification, resilience, self-sufficiency, affordability, financial stability, and sustainability–dually supported by twenty priority arrears with clear targets to ensure clean, reliable, and affordable energy.
Similarly, green energy projects were also in line with URAAN Pakistan and the Alternative and Renewable Energy (ARE) Policy 2019 which had set targets of increasing the share of renewables to 30 percent in the power generation mix by 2030.
The new initiatives for Grid stability and reliability included the Deployment of Battery Energy Storage Systems and 400 MVAR Reactive Power Compensation Devices in the National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) network improve grid flexibility and resilience. According to the information available from the official sources concerned, all this aligned with URAAN Pakistan ‘s resilient infrastructure priority as well as National Electricity Plan 2023-27’s which also emphasize modernizing infrastructure.
