Integrated energy plan for next 25 years need being worked out.

Islamabad -- Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Petroleum Nadeem Babar has said that the government was working on an integrated energy plan to meet next 25-year needs of the country.

He said this while addressing an international conference on LNG here on Friday. 'We are working on a complete integrated energy plan for next 25 years with an aim to ensure availability of electricity, oil and gas to consumers at affordable rates and in sufficient quantity,' he said

He underlined the need for overcoming the energy shortages and providing the commodities at affordable rates besides stopping their wastages,

'Make energy cheaper and consumption will double,' he said, adding that this strategy would give a substantial boost to industrial sector and economic activities in the country.

Under its ease of doing business plan, the advisor said the government had removed a number of bureaucratic hurdles to facilitate private sector in the energy sector.

He said the government intended to shrink its footprint in the energy sector by encouraging private sector to compete government sector entities.

During the last 16 months, Nadeem Babar said the government had taken a number of steps that would have positive impact on the energy sector in the coming years, but 'we are not realizing these measures right now. We have been living in the past and denying the present...but we have to move the energy sector where it has to be.'

He said the government had decided that it would not continue to increase its footprint in the LNG industry and with that mind 'we went ahead with the open access to the pipelines, terminals and there is no bar on setting up LNG terminal by private sector.'

The government would support the private sector players if they had buyers, suppliers and financial muscles, he said and asked the...

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