Energy Demand in Pakistan: A Disaggregate Analysis

By Muhammad Arshad Khan, Usman Ahmad. 2008

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This study examines the demand for energy at disaggregate level (gas, electricity and coal) for Pakistan over the period 1972-2007. Over main results suggest that electricity and coal consumption responds positively to changes in real income per capita and negatively to changes in domestic price level. The gas consumption responds negatively to real income and price changes in the shortrun, however, in the long-run real income exerts positive effect on gas consumption, while domestic price remains insignificant. Furthermore, in the short-run the average elasticities of price and real income for gas consumption (in absolute terms) are greater than that of electricity and coal consumption. The differences in elasticities of each component of energy have significant policy implications for income and revenue generation.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Electricity consumption and economic growth empirical evidence from Pakistan (2011, background): “Khan and Ahmed (2009) report that the current electricity production of Pakistan is around 11,500 MW per day, whereas the authors estimate the economy’s electricity need to jump from around 15,000 MW electricity per day to around 20,000 MW per day by 2010.”
Natural Gas Consumption and Economic Growth in Pakistan (2013, background): “To our best of knowledge, in the case of Pakistan, only four studies (Aqeel and Butt, [5]; Siddiqui, [6]; Zahid, [7]; Khan and Ahmed, [8]) are available with mixed evidences.”
Natural Gas Consumption and Economic Growth: The Role of Foreign Direct Investment, Capital Formation and Trade Openness in Malaysia (2015, background): “Khan and Ahmad [28] deployed Johansen [22] and Johansen and Juselius [29] tests to investigate the connection between gas consumption per capita, gas price and real GDP per capita in Pakistan for the period, 1972-2007.”
The Dynamics of Electricity Consumption and Economic Growth:A Revisit Study of Their Causality in Pakistan (2012, background): “Jamil and Ahmad [4] is the only study that examined the relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth in Pakistan.”