Energy Research Centre

Research Topics

• Need for R&D in the Power sector.
• Closing Power sector financial gap.
• Market liberalization and competition in Power sector transmission and distribution.
• Improving efficiency and quality of service in the energy sector
• Role of IPPs in power sector; A Critical Review.
• Evaluating NEPRA’s role in Power sector issues.
• Improving energy access at low cost.
• Grid, Mini-grid and off-grid solutions to expand access to electricity services
• Cost effectiveness of Pakistan’s investment in power sector comparison with investment in other sector.
• Benefits of Solar home system: An analysis from other countries’ experiences
• Energy subsidies & affordability
• Global experiences in electricity and gas utilities performance determinants.
• Potential and challenges in coal based generation in Pakistan
• Scope for Solar energy in Pakistan
• Introduction of pre-paid smart meters as a tool to cut power theft.
• Challenges for the Energy policy 2014.
• Improving industrial energy efficiency in SMEs in Punjab.
• Road map for promoting wind energy in Pakistan.
• Pakistan’s Energy Security : learning lessons from the past.
• Controlling power theft : legal, regulatory and administrative perspective.
• Choosing alternate sources of energy : learning from global experiences.
• Pakistan’s energy conservation strategy: how successful have we been.
• Alternate methods of Tariff setting in power sector.
• Rationalizing tariff regime in Pakistan’s power sector.
• Linkage between Tariff differential subsidy, circular debt and power outages.
• Role of public versus private sectors in power generation: performance and pricing
• Distributed generation: benefits and challenges.
• Need for aligning building codes with energy conservation.
• Unlocking hydel power generation potential in Pakistan.
• Energy economics: need for focussing on least cost generation technologies.
• Role of Academia in resolving energy crisis in Pakistan.
• Readiness of national grid to transmit power from wind and solar sources
• Learning from global best practices in energy management.