Islamabad
The incumbent government since its inception gave due attention to address all power sector problems besides bringing reforms into the entire sector.
Under the vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan, the government devised a plan to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and indigenous electricity for all by 2030, develop the most efficient and consumer centric Power generation, transmission and distribution system, sources told APP here.
They said the plan also included achieve Renewable Energy targets of 20% of energy mix by 2025 and 30% by 2030, reduce energy intensity of the GDP, reduce line losses to the permissible limit, country-wide campaign against theft of electricity and recovery campaign against current and dead defaulter.
In a major breakthrough towards implementation of $ 2.4 billion 1,124 MW Kohala Hydropower Project, agreements of the Kohala Hydropower had been signed on June 25, 2020. This latest development had paved the way for achievement of Financial Close which PPIB was targeting to be achieved by 30th June 2021, the sources said.—APP
