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Pakistan's electricity, fuel, and LPG prices rose between 43 and 68 percent this fiscal year, a UNDP economist warned the National Assembly's Standing Committee on Finance and Revenue on Monday. The panel also criticised the government for missing its own budget-law deadlines and making little progress on reducing the energy sector's ballooning circular debt.
Pakistan's Central Development Working Party publicly rebuked WAPDA on Thursday over massive cost overruns and transparency failures on the Diamer-Bhasha Dam and Tarbela 5th Extension projects. The Tarbela 5th Extension alone has ballooned from an original Rs82 billion estimate to Rs316.4 billion and has been referred to ECNEC for urgent review.
CPEC Phase 2 formally launches in 2026 with a new Green Development Corridor alongside Growth, Innovation, Livelihood, and Regional Openness corridors — plus a proposed Knowledge Corridor. Phase 1 delivered 38 Early Harvest Projects worth USD 25bn+; Phase 2 reorients toward renewables, storage, and grid modernisation.
A new technical study by Engr. Tayyeb Altaf (HVACR Instructor, GCT Rawalpindi) uses TRNSYS simulation to validate a solar-powered absorption cooling system with R-32 refrigerant for Pakistani single-family homes — 100°C collector outlet, 2000 kJ/hr energy addition, 24°C room temperature achieved.
Pakistan's industrial sector posted 4.8% growth in FY2024-25, with Electricity, Gas, and Water Supply leading at +28.9% — rebounding from a 19.9% contraction the prior year. Construction grew 6.6%. For investors reading where Pakistani energy infrastructure is headed, that's the most informative data point in the year.
Engr. Umar Farooq, CEO of Pioneer Engineering Company, talks Engineering Post through the firm's 15-year Cnergyico relationship, its portfolio across Lucky Cement, Engro, National Refinery, and Fauji Foundation, and the quality-and-safety operating discipline behind durable Pakistani industrial-services firms.
Engr. Iqrarul Haq, CEO of Elektrotechnik, reflects on 40+ years as one of Pakistan's longest-serving Schneider Electric distributors — NED University gold medallist, AEG Germany experience, founding Elektrotechnik in 1982, and his outlook on Pakistan's electrical industry.
Lister Petter — the British diesel-engine maker with 150+ years of heritage from R.A. Lister (1867) and Petters Limited (1896) — has formalised its Pakistan market presence through a strategic partnership with Power Vision, with Global Sales Director Jawad Azar and GM Leslie Wu outlining the growth strategy.
Sigma Elektrik CEO Özgür Ünlü tells Engineering Post the Turkish LV electrical manufacturer is expanding fast in Pakistan through its Jawad Electric partnership — backed by Turkish R&D investment, automated MCB/RCCB/MCCB production lines added through 2027, and approvals-driven specification growth.
Solar Pakistan Expo 2026 ran at Expo Centre Lahore from 16-19 April, drawing the country's largest gathering of panel manufacturers, inverter brands, storage suppliers, EPC contractors, and federal-and-provincial policy stakeholders — with battery storage and industrial-and-commercial solar emerging as the standout themes.
Pak Suzuki has inaugurated a 100m³ biogas plant and a 920 kWh solar power project at its manufacturing facility — a dual-asset renewable energy deployment that combines electricity self-generation with on-site biogas production for thermal applications.
Baudouin France and S M Jaffer & Co Pakistan have signed an exclusive dealership covering the full 20–6250 kVA G3-class genset range — bringing French engineering into Pakistan's data-centre, hybrid-solar, and industrial backup-power markets with 32,000-hour overhaul intervals.
Green T&D Pvt Ltd has launched Schneider Electric's PIX Easy type-tested medium-voltage switchgear panels in Pakistan — a first-in-country milestone that brings internationally-certified arc-fault-tested switchgear to the local industrial and commercial market.
In an extended Engineering Post interview, Jubilee Corporation MD Alnoor Sheriff reflects on the Karachi-based engineering distributor's 63-year journey, its 35+ international manufacturing partnerships, and the structural forces reshaping Pakistan's electrical-and-automation industry.
Jubilee Corporation has launched Tengen Global LV electrical products in Pakistan at a Lahore event, adding internationally-certified MCBs, RCCBs, MCCBs, and wiring devices to its 35+ brand portfolio — targeting the unfilled mid-tier space between premium imports and unbranded local product.
In an extended Engineering Post interview, Schneider Electric Pakistan's Kamran Sultan details the company's EV charging push via SBEEC, the new Schneider Marketplace and Partner Locator launched to combat counterfeit products, and a structured panel-builder localisation strategy.
MOL Pakistan has struck 26.5 MMSCFD of gas at the Bilitang-1 ST-1 well in Kohat — a Tal Block joint-venture discovery testing approximately 5,065 BOEPD from the Lumshiwal Formation, displacing an estimated USD 240–290 million per year in LNG imports.
OGDCL's Baragzai X-01 well in Kohat has begun commercial production, delivering 4,300 BPD of oil, 17 MMSCFD of gas, and 15 tonnes of LPG per day — roughly 10% of Pakistan's total crude output and an estimated USD 329 million in annual foreign-exchange savings.
Pakistan has signed its first bilateral carbon trading agreement with Norway under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement. The deal opens Pakistani clean-energy, transport, agriculture, and waste projects to Norwegian carbon-credit financing from the country's USD 1.5bn Global Emission Reduction Initiative.
Pakistan's Power Division has finalised Pak-IEM 2.0 — the country's first integrated energy planning model on the TIMES-VEDA framework, built with Germany's GTZ. Under the Net Zero pathway, renewables become the main contributor to power generation and emissions fall ~50% by 2050.
Pakistan has briefed cabinet on a plan to electrify 30% of the country's vehicle fleet within five years — a transition the Power Division values at USD 4.5 billion in annual petroleum-import savings, with 72 e-bike certificates and 123 charging-station applications already in the pipeline.
The 8th PLUGIN 2026 engineering competition at QUEST Nawabshah, hosted by the IEEEP QUEST Student Branch, showcased student work directly aligned with Pakistan's power-sector talent gaps — from distributed generation control to smart-meter prototypes.
Millat Tractors has signed an MoU with a Chinese e-bike manufacturer for local assembly and manufacturing — giving Pakistan's EV Policy 2025-30 its first credible heavy-industry anchor on the two-wheeler side.
The convergence of AI, sustainability, and scalability — applied to Pakistan's power sector — points to a five-year roadmap built on AI-led distribution, renewable microgrids, and accelerated smart-grid rollout, with measurable consumer and circular-debt impact.
Cummins' new HSK78 2MW lean-burn gas generator targets Pakistani manufacturers, hospitals, and data centres facing chronic load shedding — promising full single-step load acceptance and stable operation on the variable-quality gas Pakistani sites actually get.
Pakistan's Public Accounts Committee has directed the Cabinet Division to submit a full inquiry report on Nespak's alleged multi-billion rupee irregularities, centred on the Rs 43 billion Neelum Jhelum Hydro Power Project. Auditors estimate Rs 42.9 billion in losses from the project, which has been unable to generate power since a second tunnel collapse in May 2024.
NHA contractors protested in Karachi over Rs. 4.2 billion in unpaid invoices — a standoff structurally identical to the payment-chain failure that drove Pakistan's power-sector circular debt past Rs. 2.5 trillion.
Rawalpindi dealers report e-bike sales up 140% YoY as soaring petrol prices flip the ownership economics — early signal that Pakistan's dominant two-wheeler segment is starting to electrify.
Pakistan has finalised a Technical Allowance for engineers in NEPRA, NTDC, the Discos, and other power-sector bodies — a workforce reform aimed at slowing the brain drain to Gulf employers.
Pakistan and Norway have signed an Article 6.2 carbon trading agreement worth up to USD 200 million — the first bilateral climate-finance deal targeting Pakistan's power sector decarbonisation.
PM Shehbaz has directed reallocation of the Rs. 1.5 trillion PSDP toward well-performing ministries — a category that increasingly favours transmission, grid modernisation, and renewable integration projects.
Pakistan's Privatisation Commission has invited bids for FESCO, GEPCO, and IESCO — three Discos serving 14 million consumers. It's the largest power-sector divestment Pakistan has attempted since the 1998 WAPDA unbundling.
Pakistan's Senate Standing Committee has directed NEPRA to investigate Independent Power Producers over capacity payments, over-invoicing, and unjustified contractual extensions. The probe requires NEPRA to submit a detailed comparative report as parliamentarians grow increasingly concerned over the role of IPP costs in driving up electricity tariffs.
The IMF has flagged Pakistan's 81 per cent reliance on Gulf fuel imports as its most serious external economic risk following the release of a $1.1 billion programme tranche. Energy pricing has been listed as a prior action for completing the IMF review, signalling that domestic fuel and electricity costs are likely to rise in the months ahead.
Pakistan's value-added leather sector has asked the federal government to reduce high production costs, simplify multi-tier compliance, and rationalise industrial duties in the upcoming budget. Industry representatives met Commerce Minister Jam Kamal Khan in Islamabad on Thursday, flagging that elevated energy and input costs are limiting the sector's export growth.
Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has established a national task force to formulate Pakistan's first waste-to-energy policy, with Power Division Minister Sardar Awais Leghari serving as convener. The body includes federal and provincial ministers, secretaries from all four provinces, and private sector representatives tasked with identifying barriers and proposing legislation for the sector.
Gautam Adani and his nephew have agreed to pay an $18 million US civil penalty linked to an alleged $250 million scheme to bribe Indian officials for solar energy contracts, without admitting guilt. US prosecutors are separately reported to be preparing to drop the associated criminal charges entirely.
NEPRA has cleared a Rs. 4.23/unit fuel cost adjustment for April 2026, raising monthly bills for households above 200 units by an average of Rs. 850.