CRPD Policy Review

For Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Indicative Generation Capacity Expansion Plan (IGCEP) and the Transmission System Expansion Plan (TSEP) are central to determining whether the province can convert its hydropower potential into usable and bankable electricity. Although Khyber Pakhtunkhwa received 44% of the overall country’s transmission investment allocation under the FY2023-25 Transmission Investment Plan, much of this infrastructure is designed to evacuate power from the province to load centers elsewhere rather than improve electricity access within the province. This imbalance is reflected in ongoing disputes over transmission priorities, the removal of PEDO’s Madyan and Gabral-Kalam hydropower projects from the committed category of IGCEP 2025-35, inconsistencies between generation and transmission planning, delays in critical transmission projects, and the constitutional limits placed on the province’s efforts to develop its own grid. Together, these disputes expose a fundamental structural problem: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa hosts much of the country’s future hydropower generation, but has limited control over the country level planning decisions that determine whether that power can be connected, transmitted, and used for its own development. The IGCEP determines which provincial projects exist in the country’s generation pipeline; the TSEP determines whether they can exist on the grid.