Energy sector shifting to private investors

Energy sector undergoing massive transformation as world was increasingly focusing on green technologies

ISLAMABAD:

Caretaker Minister of Energy Muhammad Ali on Wednesday said that Pakistan’s energy sector was shifting from the public to private sector to boost growth and ensure its progress.

However, “it should be affordable, accessible and sustainable,” he stressed, adding that the energy sector was undergoing a massive transformation as the world was increasingly focusing on green technologies. “This is the future and it has a huge potential, the students who will enter job markets soon need to focus on careers in the energy sector and the upcoming technologies,” Ali said.

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He was speaking at the Fuelling Futures – The Career Expo 2024, organised by the Ministry of Energy in collaboration with Pakistan Petroleum Limited.

“Investing in our youth and skills development should be the cornerstone of the future energy roadmap, only then we can harness the true potential of young engineers, subject specialists and experts.” He emphasised that Pakistan needed to explore local resources, which included talented human resources as well as natural resources.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 1^st, 2024.

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