![]() Currently only two of the country's four LNG dependent plants are running. However generation costs have likely jumped further since July, as officials say peak shortages intensified last summer due to lack of LNG. Power production costs were 1.25% higher than they would have been had sufficient LNG been available during the year ended June 2022, Reuters calculations based on data in the energy ministry's annual report show. Total power output fell well short of generation capacity and demand due to fuel shortages, analysts and government officials said, resulting in blackouts for hours every week in the second half of last year.Ī key problem is that the older oil-fired power plants are inefficient and cost more to run than gas-fired plants, Pakistan Energy Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan said. Ship tracking data from Kpler shows Pakistan's LNG imports in 2022 fell 17% from the previous year to a five-year low.Īs a result, in the first 11 months of 2022, Pakistan's gas-fired power production fell 4.4%, even as overall generation rose by 1.8% to 129 gigawatt hours (GWh), data from energy think tank Ember showed. Pakistan relies on gas for a third of its electricity output, but is grappling with dwindling foreign exchange reserves to pay for energy imports. "We expect power outages to worsen in 2023," he said.ĭespite LNG prices having fallen from last year's record highs, the superchilled fuel is still expensive for South Asian buyers as their currencies have weakened sharply, making it hard for them to boost LNG imports this year. "High spot LNG prices and dwindling domestic production will mean that Pakistan will continue facing issues with ramping up gas-fired power generation," said Poorna Rajendran, LNG consultant at FGE. ![]() Pakistan and Bangladesh are heavily dependent on gas for power generation, but have had to slash their imports of LNG after prices rocketed on a surge in Europe's demand to replace Russian supplies following the Ukraine war. Bangladesh faces the same issues.īoth countries are scrambling to avoid a repeat of massive power cuts they faced last year, but industry officials and analysts say the crisis is likely to worsen this year because of a sharp drop in imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG). 249-264.Fear in the retail sector highlights how a shortage of imported gas has cut power output and hit the economy in Pakistan, just as it reels from soaring inflation and a sliding currency. Methods and Methodologies, New York: Routledge, pp. In Antje Kahl (ed.), Analyzing Affective Societies. Multi-perspectivity, Ethnography, and Mental Health-Care Intervention. Researching Affects in the Clinic and Beyond. Heyken, Edda, Anita von Poser, Eric Hahn, Thi Main Huong Nguyen, Jörg-Christian Lanca & Thi Minh Tam Ta (2019). In Jan Slaby & Christian von Scheve (eds.), Affective Societies. Von Poser, Anita Edda Heyken, Thi Minh Tam Ta & Eric Hahn (2019). Renegotiating Non-/belonging and In/exclusion in an Ephemeral Community of Care. Von Poser, Anita & Edda Willamowski (2020). An Interdisciplinary, Mixed-method Study. ![]() Perceived Emotional Distress among Vietnamese Outpatients in Germany. Nguyen, Main Huong, Jörg-Christian Lanca, Eric Hahn, Anita von Poser, Edda Willamowski, Ketja Wingenfeld, Roland Burian, Albert Diefenbacher & Thi Minh Tam Ta (2020). Her current research involves ethnographic research with Vietnamese-born social workers in Berlin as well as trans-disciplinary collaborative work on the affective efforts of migration in clinical settings and everyday lifeworlds with colleagues from the field of cultural psychiatry and global mental health. Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität BerlinĪnita von Poser’s research interests pertain to the field of psychological anthropology with a special focus on affects, emotions, belonging, and empathy as well as migration, aging, care, and the life course. ![]()
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