KE and NGC Interconnection in IGCEP Sensitivities: One Country, Two Grids

IGCEP 2025-35 sensitivities reported in April 2026 included cases with and without a candidate interconnection between the National Grid Company system and K-Electric, plus a case with KE’s committed renewables. Installed capacity outcomes shifted across those sensitivities, underscoring a structural fact outsiders often miss: Pakistan still plans and operates as linked but distinct electricity systems. It is an engineering option to move surplus and cover deficits, to improve renewable absorption, and to reduce the need for duplicate firm capacity.

As of late September 2026, with DISCO privatisation advancing in the north and centre and net billing reshaping loads everywhere, failing to progress interconnection studies would be a self-inflicted congestion tax.