PAKISTAN: Pakistan 2025: One Nation - One Vision

Meta Data
Draft: 
No
Revision of previous policy?: 
No
Effective Start Year: 
2014
Effective End Year: 
2025
Scope: 
National
Document Type: 
Overarching Policy
Economic Sector: 
Energy, Power, Industry, Transport, Multi-Sector, Other
Energy Types: 
All, Coal, Power, Gas, Renewable, Bioenergy, Hydropower, Other
Issued by: 
Ministry of Planning, Development and Reform
Source: 
Government of Pakistan
File: 
Pakistan 2025: One Nation - One Vision
Overall Summary: 
This document presents the country’s strategy and road-map to reach national goals and aspirations. The ultimate goal envisioned is for Pakistan to be one of the 10 largest economies in the world by 2047. The seven pillars of Vision 2025 are based on the imperatives of embracing change and transformation, and to create new opportunities. The pillars of the Vision are the following: – People first: developing social and human capital and empowering women – Growth: sustained, indigenous, and inclusive growth – Governance: democratic governance – institutional reform and modernisation of the public sector – Security: energy, water and food security – Entrepreneurship: private sector and entrepreneurship-led growth – Knowledge economy: developing a competitive knowledge economy through value addition – Connectivity: modernising transport infrastructure and regional connectivity.
Access
Energy access action plan: 
To deal with the infrastructure problems, the supply-demand gap in electricity will be minimized in the short-term. Investments made for long-term energy supply will focus on projects that are reliable and cost effective.
Energy access targets: 
Pakistan Vision 2025 aims at ensuring uninterrupted access to affordable and clean energy for all sections of the population. ---Eliminate current electricity supply-demand gap by 2018, and cater to growing future demand by addition of 25,000 MW by 2025.---Energy: double power generation to over 45,000 MW to provide uninterrupted and affordable electricity, and increase electricity access from 67% to over 90% of the population
Efficiency
EE priorities: 
A national initiative towards the conservation of energy will be taken to use the available capacity more effectively.
EE targets: 
Energy: (a) reduce average cost per unit by over 25% by improving generation mix (15%) and reducing distribution losses (10%);---Address demand management by increasing usage of energy efficient appliances/products to 80%.
EE action plans: 
Focus on demand management and conservation to ensure prioritization in allocation, elimination of wasteful use, incentives to use more energy efficient equipment and appliances and achieve better balance between peak and off-peak hours.---Minimum baseline efficiency standards will be developed and monitored in assessing all new investments – i.e. in efficiency improvements versus building additional capacity
Renewable Energy
RE action plans: 
Private investments in hydel and other renewable sources will be encouraged.
Environment
Energy environmental priorities: 
Design water, food and energy security policies and plans of the country with specific reference to the profound challenges posed by climate change.
Land use change for energy production purposes: 
Create a modern, efficient and diversified agricultural sector – aligned with associated water and energy infrastructure ---.Government support and spending for agriculture will be reviewed and rationalized to ensure it is directed to areas such as [...], alternate energy,[...].
Energy Supply and Infrastructure
Energy supply priorities: 
Tap Pakistan’s huge potential for alternative energy.---Concerted programs are being launched to tap Pakistan’s immense potential for developing Shale Oil and Gas.---[...] the country has an enormous amount of untapped coal reserves (around 186 billion tons). Accordingly, we plan to increase domestic coal production from 4.5 to 60 million tonnes per year.
Energy mix: 
We aim to improve the energy mix with a larger share of coal, hydel and renewable energy sources. ---Optimize energy generation mix between oil, gas, hydro, coal, nuclear, solar, wind and biomass – with reference to its indigenousness, economic feasibility, scalability, risk assessment and environmental impact.---(b) increase percentage of indigenous sources of power generation to over 50%;
Infrastructure development priorities: 
Complete two major hydel projects: DiamerBhasha and Dasu dams.---Operationalize the immense potential of Thar coal and complete Gaddani Energy Park with 6600 MW capacity.---Complete new Nuclear power generation plants.--- Maximize distribution efficiency and cut wasteful losses through investment in transmission and distribution infrastructure and effective enforcement of controls.---To deal with the infrastructure problems, the supply-demand gap in electricity will be minimized in the short-term. Investments made for long-term energy supply will focus on projects that are reliable and cost effective.
Regional integration priorities: 
Pakistan will look to diversify its export destinations and instead of depending solely on bilateral trading partners will focus on pluri-lateral and multilateral trade agreements in the SAARC & ASEAN regions. ---Pakistan will take advantage of CAREC, as CAREC helps Central Asia and its neighbors realize their significant potential by promoting regional cooperation in four priority areas: transport; trade facilitation; energy, and trade policy. In new emerging global and regional alignment, Pakistan will take benefit of its strategic location to serve as gateway to Central Asia and attain energy security by connecting to Central Asia.---The government is engaged in talks for cooperation in the areas of energy with some ECO members and the scope of economic cooperation will be broadened in the medium-term.
Cooperation in connectivity: 
[...] China- Pakistan Economic Corridor energy projects will serve as a backbone of the energy strategy to overcome power crisis in Pakistan.---Pakistan’s trade linkages with North America, EU, Russia, East Asia and their neighbours will expand especially with China, Central Asia, the Middle East and India. Completion of key infrastructure and energy sector projects will contribute to the national economy.
Trade
Energy trade priorities: 
Pakistan’s trade linkages with North America, EU, Russia, East Asia and their neighbours will expand especially with China, Central Asia, the Middle East and India. Completion of key infrastructure and energy sector projects will contribute to the national economy.
Investment
Investment climate development: 
Private investments in hydel and other renewable sources will be encouraged. ---[T]he Pakistani Diaspora abroad will be motivated/ incentivized to invest in Pakistan and bring know how.
Governance
Energy management principles: 
Address institutional fragmentation and decay of the sector due to poor capacity.---Introduce institutional reform and strengthen regulatory frameworks to improve transparency and efficiency.---In view of the above, there is an urgent need to develop an integrated energy development plan that addresses the merits of our energy imports, the development of indigenous energy resources, a more diversified energy mix, and initiatives to achieve better energy efficiency (including assessing investment in efficiency improvements versus additional capacity) and management.
Energy institutional structures: 
we will accelerate the development and deployment of an “Integrated Energy Development Model” to enable our energy sector (that includes separate ministries of Petroleum and Natural Resources; Water and Power; Planning and Development; Environment, Transport and Communications; and also the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission – as well as separate regulatory bodies for oil and gas, and electric power) to benefit from a single overarching model across the related ministries or regulatory bodies.
Technology
Low-emission and cleaner coal technology: 
We [...] are committed to adoption of clean coal combustion technologies, along with strong policies to make its use ecofriendly, to conform to international standards.