The United States has provided extensive support to Pakistan’s energy sector through its hydropower programs and technical assistance and infrastructure improvement initiatives. The United States has provided financial aid to Pakistan for more than fifty years which has enabled the country to establish its main water and electricity infrastructure systems through their major water and energy initiatives. The partnership has developed new functions because of international environmental issues and changes in energy market conditions and Pakistan needs to develop more electricity sources for its power generation needs. The United States and Pakistan now focus their energy partnership on developing renewable energy sources which include solar and wind power while they work to upgrade the national electricity grid system.

The U.S.–Pakistan “Green Alliance” serves as the primary framework which guiding the partnership at present. The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad states that the initiative focuses on three main objectives which include developing clean energy technologies, attracting private sector funding, and enhancing power transmission systems to help Pakistan achieve its sustainable development objectives. The current initiatives work together with Pakistan’s national energy strategy because it plans to produce 60 percent of its electricity through renewable energy sources by the year 2030. The ambitious goal requires immediate establishment of solar and wind power facilities together with necessary improvements to the existing electrical grid which currently has problems handling new energy sources.

Pakistan relies on solar energy as its main component for establishing an energy transition framework. The country has adopted solar power as one of its most affordable methods to expand its electricity generation capacity because it receives extensive........

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