Overview
- A meeting Tuesday in Islamabad between Power Minister Sardar Awais Leghari and ADB Country Director Emma Xiaoqin Fan produced a commitment to support power sector reforms.
- ADB is already helping deploy advanced metering infrastructure, and it is studying rooftop solar and battery energy storage to map their impact on the grid.
- The government is raising the share of local coal, hydropower and solar to hold down electricity costs for homes and businesses.
- Officials asked for help to restructure the National Grid Company and to draw private investment into transmission, with the Pakistan Business Council engaged on the effort.
- Next steps include a visit by an ADB vice president later this month, and the bank is preparing capacity-building programs such as technical training in Korea for power staff.