This paper describes the dynamics of supply and demand, price and pilferage, and resources and need of electricity conservation in the Domestic Sector of Pakistan. The dynamic hypothesis of the model is described. Then explanation of system behaviour, through model simulation, is given. The system dynamics treatment of the feedback loops is contrasted with the treatment found in most electric utilities of the world in general and of Pakistan in particular. The flexibility of the technique was extensively utilized in policy analysis and 22 policies were studied, out of which 11 are discussed in this paper. It also shows that electricity conservation is a very complex socio-economic environment, a more complex issue than conservation itself, rather moral than economic, and is not very much in the control of utilities alone. The study provided many insight, e.g. pricing policies are not the cause if the problem, increase in income level may not alleviate pilferage of electricity, conservation may be possible with pilferage control and certain incentives, and resource allocation needs social attention.

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