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Significant Current and Future Investments

PEA prepared plans and projects for concurrence with future power needs and set

investment plan frameworks of power system development plans for concurrence with the
11 National Economic and Social Development Plan (2012 – 2016) with the primary goal of
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developing power systems of PEA to be suffcient with coverage and security in line
with service quality standards, including national development policies and strategies of
the government and various agencies on issues related to power system development.

PEA plans projects based on investment plan frameworks for concurrence with predictions of
power needs prepared by the work committee for preparing predictions of power needs.
The current predictions received approval on November 29, 2016 to use predictions of
base cases in investment planning due to growing severity of energy and environmental
crises while national development requires energy as a basic factor. Therefore, in addition
to offering quality and effective electricity services, PEA is focused on developing power

grids to be secure, smart, safe and vital drivers in developing PEA’s Smart Grid in order to
improve quality of life and be friendly to the environment. In addition to readiness of
suffciency, coverage and security, quality of power systems, renewable energy and property
management must be developed to be effective and support the use of clean energy, reductions
in greenhouse gas emissions in addition to adjusting power needs to have conservation, ability

to access services and satisfaction from power users.
According to predictions of power needs on November 29, 2016, the base case at the
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end of the 11 National Economic and Social Development Plan (2016) will have power use at
129,673 million units, a maximum power need of 20,853 megawatts and approximately 18.89
million power users with a mean annual increase of 4.72 percent, 5.23 percent and 3.11 percent,
respectively.

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Annual Report 2016 Provincial Electricity Authority