ISLAMABAD
The Caretaker Planning Minister for Development & Special Initiatives Muhammad Sami Saeed said that Integrated Energy Planning will help in tackling the energy crisis being faced by the country. He made these remarks while addressing at the workshop titled “Integrated Energy Planning for Sustainable Development, organized by the Energy Wing of the Planning Ministry on Wednesday. Under the vision 2025, the project IEP was envisioned to make a centralized Energy Planning and Resource Centre (EPRC) that meets the demands of energy planning for the fast development in the world. He said that the outcomes of the LEAP model by the Integrated Energy Planning (IEP) will help in achieving the high industrial growth__ export-led economic base and to save the foreign exchange reserves.
The event was attended by the Deputy Chairman Planning Commission, Jehanzeb Khan, country’s leading experts in the energy sectors and other stakeholders. LEAP model is an effort to present a holistic integrated initial approach to Energy Demand and Supply Analysis; containing all components of integrated balances, it is used to compute long-term energy prices under various scenarios. It is noted that in August 2022, IEP for Sustainable Development took the initiative of providing an in-person LEAP training program where relevant energy sector stakeholders were invited to participate in the training process.
