Analysis of Pakistan’s Offshore Renewable Energy Potential and Strategy to Harvest These Through Indigenous Development of Related Niche Maritime Technologies

Off-shore renewable energy offers promising potential for the sustainable growth of nations’ economy. This however is contingent upon the development of cutting edge technologies to effectively and efficiently harvest the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE). Owing to attractive dividends of ORE, trend to evolve and market disruptive ORE technologies has picked up a rapid and consistent momentum across the globe with major maritime nations assuming the lead role. Developing nations including Pakistan despite being blessed with vast offshore renewable energy potentials have yet to jump start this journey. This paper therefore, focusses on this gap while analyzing in detail the vast offshore renewable energy potentials across the coastal areas and EEZ of Pakistan. The niche maritime technologies required to be indigenously developed for efficiently exploiting these national offshore renewable energy potentials are then presented. The (ORE) sectors covered in this regard include solar, wind, tidal, wave, thermal and osmotic.