KARACHI: Committed to fostering creativity, innovation, and localisation in the energy sector, K-Electric has launched Energy Progress & Innovation Challenge (EPIC) 2025.
Building on the resounding success of its pioneering 7/11+ Innovation Challenge introduced in 2022, EPIC will unite entrepreneurs, academia, researchers, and think tanks to develop cutting-edge solutions for the energy industry.
Innovators may address K-Electric’s predefined challenge statements or propose their own transformational ideas. This year’s EPIC Challenge spotlights carefully deliberated themes that align with regulatory priorities and key customer challenges, including “Tamper-proof PMT-based load-shedding solutions” to enable fairer, more transparent power distribution while safeguarding paying customers from unnecessary disruptions.
Other challenge statements designed to inspire groundbreaking solutions for the power sector include “Real-time fleet tracking and visibility for power utilities”, “Proactive energy theft detection”, “Demand forecasting automation using AI”, “Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) utilization for managing system dynamics under growing RE integration”, “Pre-emptive transformer level failure detection”, “PV impact analysis”, “Smart monitoring of transmission lines: enhancing grid reliability”, “Underground MV cable health indexing”, and “Open innovation: driving transformation in the power sector”.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2025
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