{"id":49808,"date":"2019-02-23T10:06:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T05:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=49808"},"modified":"2019-02-22T18:07:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T13:07:03","slug":"planning-minister-expresses-govts-commitment-to-cost-effective-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/planning-minister-expresses-govts-commitment-to-cost-effective-energy.html","title":{"rendered":"Planning Minister expresses govt\u2019s commitment to cost-effective energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Planning Minister Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar has said that the government is committed to developing a systematic and cost-effective energy sector, a news source reported. He was chairing the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> meeting of the steering committee on Integrated Energy Planning for Sustainable Development.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion, he informed that efforts were being made to provide affordable energy to the masses. A robust energy policy is also being formulated for sustained economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said that the government is working on devising a renewable energy policy in order to tap the country\u2019s indigenous resources. He also noted that the cost of renewable energy technologies have decreased, recently. He added that the government will encourage competitive bidding for tariff determination for future renewable energy projects bringing down the energy cost.<\/p>\n<p>The government will prioritise the energy infrastructure needed in the next Public Sector Development Programme to bridge the gap between transmission and distribution supply chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Planning Minister Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar has said that the government is committed to developing a systematic and cost-effective energy sector, a news source reported. He was chairing the 2nd meeting of the steering committee on Integrated Energy Planning for Sustainable Development. On the occasion, he informed that efforts were being made to provide affordable energy to the masses. A robust energy policy is also being formulated for sustained economic growth. The minister said that the government is working on devising a renewable energy policy in order to tap the country\u2019s indigenous resources. He also noted that the cost of renewable energy technologies have decreased, recently. He added that the government will encourage competitive bidding for tariff determination for future renewable energy projects bringing down the energy cost. The government will prioritise the energy infrastructure needed in the next Public Sector Development Programme to bridge the gap between transmission and distribution supply chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":44835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10687],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-planning-minister-expresses-govts-commitment-to-cost-effective-energy"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Planning Minister expresses govt\u2019s commitment to cost-effective energy - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Planning Minister Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar has said that the government is committed to developing a systematic and cost-effective energy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/planning-minister-expresses-govts-commitment-to-cost-effective-energy.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Planning Minister expresses govt\u2019s commitment to cost-effective energy - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Planning Minister Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar has said that the government is committed to developing a systematic and cost-effective energy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/planning-minister-expresses-govts-commitment-to-cost-effective-energy.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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