December 02, 2008
ADB to help reform Pakistan Strategic Energy Plan 2009-29
Pakistan’s Daily Times reported that Asian Development Bank would help government of Pakistan to develop within 1 year and help implementing Pakistan Strategic Energy Plan 2009-2029. The plan would also help establish new Pakistan energy planning unit to meet the future challenges.
ADB would finance the hiring of international consultants, which would be completed in August 2007 to help Pakistan review the existing sectoral energy policies and strategies and recommend measures in the shape of final report on Pakistan Strategic Energy Plan.
According to an ADB document, relating to the project and terms of reference of the international consultants, the project is to assist the government of Pakistan to establish an integrated energy model for analyzing the impacts of various strategies for meeting energy requirements. Financial, economic, energy supply, national resources, energy use, environment impacts, technologies, energy efficiencies, and socio political impacts would be among the factors to be addressed.
The services of an international consultant supported by local consultant would review the existing data across Pakistan’s energy sector. This will include economic, financial and technical data on
1. Import and domestic energy supplies of all sources.
2. Energy consumption by sector and by type
3. Environmental, efficiency and sociopolitical matters.
Based on findings of the said review, also to review and evaluate and extract the lesson learned by countries similarly situated as Pakistan who have used energy planning and optimization model. This would also include review of Pakistan’s energy sector institutional framework and identify appropriate institutional locations and reporting arrangements of energy planning team.
The consultant would also identify the leading energy models that are available in the international marketplace for national energy planning. Based on Pakistan’s needs, identify the advantages of various model types. Also to assist in developing energy model procurement by the developing tender documents to be issued to pre-qualified energy suppliers. The consultant would also coach the counterpart team to ensure a functional energy-planning unit is in existence on the completion of his contract.
According to the assignments to be given to a team of international consultants, consultant on energy economics would act as team leader and manage the project from inception to completion.
