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Electricity Crisis in Pakistan and Solutions

Though the Govt is deploying massively in infrastructure (eg Quaid-i-Azam solar park worth of 1000KW) but there are other issues/solution we are ignoring. Major solar energy companies (NRG Clean Power, SunPower by Positive Energy Solar, Boston Solar, etc) should be consulted based on public private partnership and this should be deployed to individual houses. Believe, the God gifted geo-graphical Pakistan got so much potential, that once solar and wind parts are deployed at gross level; we can overcome this 10,000 MW shortfall in 2 years in contrast to hydro-electric (which can take a decade) .   We need to overcome these issues: 1- Affordable: We should consider the rate of electricity being produced. The current rate is around Pkr 14/unit and the customer is paying around Pkr 11/unit. There are huge losses in terms of subsidy, transmission losses (infrastructure breakout, old-fashioned ways to transmission by K-Electric), and theft losses (around 22% is lost due to theft)? ...