A Model for Strategizing Energy Security Dimensions and Indicators Selection for Pakistan

Energy security is a complex field of research and has multitude of dimensions. There are five dimensions commonly utilized by researchers which are namely Availability, Affordability, Technology & Efficiency, Governance & Regulation and Environment & Sustainability. Upon synthesizing with energy sector policies, these five dimensions are also applicable in case of Pakistan. To quantify these dimensions there were 60 indicators are being selected from the last five-year studies and then through the Discrimination analysis, there 39 indicators are finalized for Pakistan. The availability dimension has 13, affordability has 10, technology & efficiency has 6, governance & regulation has all the 7 and environment and sustainability has 3 indicators to be utilized for further analysis. The selected indicators are robust as they are based on past data and has the major variations during the studied period. Hence, these indicators could be utilized for energy security recommendations in future policy scenarios for Pakistan.