{"id":64868,"date":"2023-01-27T07:05:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T12:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64868"},"modified":"2023-02-09T09:40:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T14:40:25","slug":"europes-energy-crisis-leaves-almost-all-of-pakistan-without-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64868","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s Energy Crisis Leaves Almost All Of Pakistan Without Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Energy\/Energy-General\/Europes-Energy-Crisis-Leaves-Almost-All-Of-Pakistan-Without-Power.html\">Europe\u2019s Energy Crisis Leaves Almost All Of Pakistan Without Power<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"key_points\" class=\"wysiwyg clear\">\n<ul>\n<li>Pakistan faced an almost nationwide power outage on Monday.<\/li>\n<li>A significant energy shortage is one of the main drivers of the nation\u2019s current economic crisis.<\/li>\n<li>The energy crisis in Europe has made Pakistan vulnerable to high fuel prices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"articleImageContainer\"><picture class=\"lozad-picture singleArticle__articleImage\" data-iesrc=\"https:\/\/d32r1sh890xpii.cloudfront.net\/article\/718x300\/2023-01-25_fukwma3s6d.jpg\" data-loaded=\"true\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d32r1sh890xpii.cloudfront.net\/article\/420x175\/2023-01-25_fukwma3s6d.jpg\" media=\"(max-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d32r1sh890xpii.cloudfront.net\/article\/718x300\/2023-01-25_fukwma3s6d.jpg\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" \/><img \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-content\" class=\"wysiwyg clear\">\n<p>The long-awaited winter energy crisis has finally hit\u2026but it wasn\u2019t in Europe after all. On Monday, almost the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/23\/world\/asia\/pakistan-power-outage-blackouts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">entirety of Pakistan was left without power<\/a>\u00a0when a misguided energy saving strategy by the government backfired. Runaway inflation, a severely weakened currency, and rapidly emptying foreign exchange reserves have left Pakistan on the brink of economic collapse. The country of 230 million people is plagued by overdue energy payments, and was seeking to cut costs by lowering energy use when the plan went off the rails, leaving people across the country without power or water for more than 12 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistani officials had planned to save on energy costs by turning off electricity across the country overnight. Nighttime has the lowest usage hours for energy in Pakistan, where winters are relatively mild. The problem came when technicians tried to reboot the electric system in the morning, and found out that the infrastructure wasn\u2019t capable of booting up the entire nation\u2019s energy grid all at once. Major cities, including the capital city of Islamabad, as well as smaller cities and towns across the country were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/disaster-planning-and-response-karachi-pakistan-islamabad-business-2dc7d442d662f462de146111d02c49e2?fbclid=IwAR3zzcuAPZeOr6bFP1dQLkC2RBvCJXBT-kRIuVUGGl8t6F0reWHgD5nxi4Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">left in the dark for 15 hours on Monday, lasting into the night<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs an economic measure, we temporarily shut down our power generation systems\u201d Sunday night, Energy Minister Khurram Dastgir told local media. He went on to explain that when engineers tried to turn the systems back on, a \u201cfluctuation in voltage\u201d occurred, which \u201cforced engineers to shut down the power grid\u201d stations altogether.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe\u2019s Energy Crisis Leaves Almost All Of Pakistan Without Power Pakistan faced an almost nationwide power outage on Monday. A significant energy shortage is one of the main drivers of the nation\u2019s current economic crisis. The energy crisis in Europe has made Pakistan vulnerable to high fuel prices. The long-awaited winter energy crisis has finally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[265,281,15331,5332,33635],"class_list":["post-64868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-energy-crisis","tag-europe","tag-haley-zaremba","tag-oilprice-com","tag-pakistan-blackout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64982,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64868\/revisions\/64982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}