Towards Achieving 100% Renewable Energy Supply for Sustainable Climate Change in Pakistan

Muhammad Amir Raza (), Muhammad Mohsin Aman, Altaf Hussain Rajpar, Mohamed Bashir Ali Bashir and Touqeer Ahmed Jumani
Additional contact information
Muhammad Amir Raza: Department of Electrical Engineering, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi 75270, Pakistan
Muhammad Mohsin Aman: Department of Electrical Engineering, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi 75270, Pakistan
Altaf Hussain Rajpar: Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Jouf University, Sakaka 42421, Saudi Arabia
Mohamed Bashir Ali Bashir: Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Jouf University, Sakaka 42421, Saudi Arabia
Touqeer Ahmed Jumani: Department of Electrical Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, SZAB Campus, Khairpur 66020, Pakistan

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 24, 1-23

Abstract: Fossil fuel-based energy systems are mostly used for supplying energy that creates negative impacts on the environment, so in this study, the development of a 100% renewable energy system is evaluated for Pakistan for sustainable climate change. This study modeled three scenarios, namely, ongoing (ONG), energy saving policy (ESP), and green energy policy (GEP) scenarios using low emission analysis platform (LEAP) software for the study period 2022 to 2050 for Pakistan. The results revealed that a 100% renewable energy supply could be achieved through the GEP scenario. Model results show that the share of renewable sources in the total energy mix is 1117.08 TWh and non-renewable sources contribute only 18.12 TWh to meet the energy demand of 966.05 TWh until 2050. Non-renewable production leads to the generation of 8.85 million metric tons of carbon emissions, which is too low compared with the 135.47 million metric tons under the ONG scenario. The USD 1482.46 billion investment cost required for adding renewable energy capacity until 2050 is too high as compared with the USD 46.80 billion under the ONG scenario. Energy demand and production requirements are reduced by 34.18% under the ESP scenario until 2050. This approach can also be applicable to the majority of nations worldwide.

Keywords: energy modeling; 100% renewable supply; climate change; environmental impact; sustainable electricity market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/24/16547/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/24/16547/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:14:y:2022:i:24:p:16547-:d:999107

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().