Title: Pakistan’s Energy Scenario-Future Challenges and Strategies.

Abstract:

This talk addresses the detailed energy scenario of Pakistan’s power sector. The power sector of Pakistan is facing multiple challenges, including use of inefficient, high-cost energy resources, unreliable and outdated distribution network, and use of old inefficient appliances by the consumers. The energy demand is increasing due to the economic and population growth of the country; however, the ever-increasing cost of energy is effectively increasing the production cost of industrial products making them uncompetitive with the international market. This is due to the overwhelming use of non-renewable fossil fuel-based power generation. The use of renewable solar energy for power generation can address these issues. The Roof-top, on-grid PV solar system for domestic use is highly cost effective now. The domestic consumption of electric energy is nearly 50% of the total energy demand. Tax-free import is allowed for PV solar modules and inverters. Currently, the share of solar PV power generation is only 3% in the country. The increase of the share of solar PV generation is required but there will be power system stability issues need to be addressed. This talk will also address these stability issues and recommend possible solutions. Another problem with the Solar energy is that it is only available during the daytime. Efficient low-cost energy storage systems will be required. New battery technologies with their economic analysis will also be addressed.

Biography:
Professor Dr. Tahir Izhar is Alumnus of UET Lahore. His session at UET Lahore was year 1978, at the department of electrical engineering, UET Lahore. Dr. Tahir did his MSc in electrical engineering from UET Lahore and got his PhD in electrical engineering from University of Birmingham, UK. He also attained an MBA degree from institute of business and management of UET Lahore. He served as a very prominent faculty member at the department of electrical engineering, UET Lahore, for almost 35 years. He worked at several administrative posts at the University as well. He remained chairman of the department of electrical engineering at UET Lahore and served as dean of electrical engineering faculty as well. He has been actively involved in research, training, teaching, and consultancy for the last 38 years. He is an expert in andragogical training for in corporate sector to implement energy management in their organizations. He also served as a consultant GIZ sequa GmbH for developing Teaching and learning materials for Energy Efficiency Advisor Courses. He is also a certified trainer and evaluation for competency-based training for NVTECH. Currently he is heading R&D team at Maxell power Pvt. Ltd. for their ongoing projectors related to solar energy systems. Dr. Tahir remained a very active researcher during his professional career and published 57 international research papers. He supervised 4 PhDs, 49 MPhils, and 80 BSc engineering final year design projects.