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Net-Metering Launch in Pakistan

The Prime Minister of Pakistan, on January 3, 2018, addressed the nation on the occassion of net-metering launch ceremony. Although NEPRA approved the net-metering regulations in September 2015, it in...
State Bank of Pakistan adopts Green Banking Guidelines

Already this year in October, the State Bank of Pakistan adopted Green Banking Guidelines, which urge all national commercial banks to reduce adverse effects of their institution on the environment an...
BSW joins hands with SQF

The German Solar Association (BSW-Solar) and the Solar Quality Forum (SQF) have concluded a cooperation agreement. At the heart of the partnership, which was signed on 2nd June 2017 at the InterSolar ...
Islamabad's F-9 Park Installs Solar

City Authorities, in December, installed an 870kW solar PV plant in Islamabad's Fatima Jinnah Park. The authorities installed 3,400 solar panels on an area of 2.5 hectares, at a cost of $4.8 million.
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The World Bank publishes an open data website

The World Bank recently published an open data website, providing access to datasets and data analystics relevant to the energy sector. The website also provides useful tools to present the data in a ...
PGREF joins hands with RAFTAAR for energy policy reforms

PGREF formally signed a Memorandum of Understanding with RAFTAAR (Research & Advocacy for the Advancement of Allied Reforms), which is an organisation that advocates for tax and energy sector reforms ...
AEDB holds net-metering promotional seminar

The Government of Pakistan promotes the exploitation of renewable energy (RE) sources through Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB). Distributed generation (by small-scale plants and even reside...
Germany shows interest in energy sector through CPEC

German Ambassador to Pakistan, Ms. Ina Lapel told Mr. Abdul Rauf Alam, President of Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FPCCI) in a meeting on November 10, 2016 about interest of Ge...
Pak-German Capacity Building co-operation: 12 Trainers to be sent to Germany for solar PV training

LAHORE - Gross Gerau (Germany) In December 2015 on a study tour by the Pakistan-German Renewable Energy Forum (PGREF), a delegation including members of the Energy Department of the Government of the ...

Cooperating with Confidence

The PGREF is a cooperation initiative between the Governments of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the Federal Republic of Germany supported by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation & Development (BMZ) to create a network between their respective industries, public sectors and innovation networks in the Renewable Energy (RE) and Energy Efficiency (EE) field.

Background and vision
Pakistan’s energy sector is marked by a substantial electricity shortage of about 6000 MW installed capacity, affecting economic growth as well as social development – with no or limited and unreliable access to electricity (ca. 50% of the population), frequent load-shedding and high energy prices relative to income levels. With economic growth and rising energy demands, the energy crisis continues to hamper Pakistan’s development.

Pakistan’s current energy mix
Projections indicate that on top of a 10% increase on the current 30% of electricity provided by hydro-power in Pakistan, up to 30% of Pakistan’s electricity in the next decade could come from other renewable sources mainly solar PV, wind power and biomass. Additionally, Energy Efficiency and Conservation (EE & C) measures need to contribute by adding demand-side management to reduce the relative need for energy (decoupling). The overall potential for energy savings from EE & C, and with it’s CO2 emission reduction, is estimated to be approximately 30-50%.