IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/fej/articl/v2cy2011i5p60-70.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The potential impact of coal on electricity generation and economic growth of Pakistan

Author

Listed:
  • Samreen Akhtar

    (MS Scholar, Preston University, Islamabad, Pakistan)

  • Dr Khalid Mugal

    (Associate Professor, Preston University, Islamabad, Pakistan)

  • Dr. Muhammad Aslam Khan

    (Associate Professor, Preston University, Islamabad, Pakistan)

Abstract

This paper is a review of generating electricity from Thar coal and analysis effective usage reserves of coal in Pakistan. The country had faced enormous crises from 1947 to till today. According to the (EIA), the coal was inexpensive and primary source of energy. With economic growth the demand of electricity has exceeded the supply by 6000MW in 2010 causing load shedding in 2011.This has slowed down the economic growth. Thar coal can alone produce 5000MW electricity for the next 800 years. It is found that coal is an efficient estimator than other energy resources. The effects of energy generation through coal elements like hydro, nuclear, oil, gas were selected and its impact on economic growth has been evaluated in the study. The secondary data in this paper has been taken and results analyzed according. Coal and energy resources are independent variables besides electricity is dependent variable. The method of least square is used on the basis of 13observations.

Suggested Citation

  • Samreen Akhtar & Dr Khalid Mugal & Dr. Muhammad Aslam Khan, 2011. "The potential impact of coal on electricity generation and economic growth of Pakistan," Far East Journal of Psychology and Business, Far East Research Centre, vol. 2(5), pages 60-70, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:fej:articl:v:2c:y:2011:i:5:p:60-70
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.fareastjournals.com/files/FEJPBV2N3P5.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: http://www.fareastjournals.com/archive_detail.aspx?jid=18&aid=9
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Mariam Amjad & Maria Aslam & Madiha Noshad, 2020. "Pakistan Energy Crises: Determinants and Consequences," iRASD Journal of Energy and Environment, International Research Association for Sustainable Development (iRASD), vol. 1(2), pages 94-107, December.
    2. Arshad, Ameena & Zakaria, Muhammad & Junyang, Xi, 2016. "Energy prices and economic growth in Pakistan: A macro-econometric analysis," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 25-33.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Coal; hydro; oil; gas; nuclear; electricity; economic growth;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • M1 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:fej:articl:v:2c:y:2011:i:5:p:60-70. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Jim Chau (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.fareastjournals.com/journal_detail.aspx?jid=18 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.