Sherry urges battery storage push to accelerate Pakistan’s solar transition
Senator Sherry Rehman of Pakistan has called for an urgent transition to battery storage and smart grid infrastructure to stabilize the country's energy sector. She argues that modernizing the grid and incentivizing distributed energy resources is essential for economic growth and climate resilience.
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Improving energy infrastructure is critical for Pakistan's economic stability and its ability to transition away from fossil fuels while managing power outages.
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Vice President Senator Sherry Rehman yesterday called for an accelerated shift towards battery storage, smart grids and distributed energy resources (DER), saying Pakistan's clean energy transition would remain incomplete without affordable financing, modern grid infrastructure and policy support for households and small businesses. Addressing the Solar Storage Flexibility Conference in Islamabad, Rehman said countries with reliable electricity would lead future economic growth, lamenting that unannounced power outages continued to disrupt education and economic activity, with students among the worst affected. She said millions of low-income households still lacked access to affordable and reliable energy despite Pakistan's vast renewable energy potential. "Our electricity demand is lower than our installed generation capacity. This is essentially a planning issue," she said, stressing the need for reforms in the power sector.
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