KE extends deadline for EPIC 2025 submissions to April 18

KARACHI: KE announced on Thursday the extension of the submission deadline for the Energy Progress & Innovation Challenge (EPIC) 2025.

The new deadline for submissions is now April 18, 2025. This extension provides additional opportunities for pioneering individuals and groups to finalise and submit transformative solutions designed to accelerate innovation and drive localisation within Pakistan’s energy sector.

Since its launch in March 2025, EPIC has successfully positioned itself as a leading platform, fostering collaboration among entrepreneurs, academia, researchers, and think tanks dedicated to developing groundbreaking innovations for the energy industry. The response has been remarkable, with more than 100 local and international entities, including research institutes, organisations, and academia, demonstrating their keen interest through extensive engagement sessions facilitated by K-Electric.

EPIC spotlights carefully considered 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) utilisation 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’.

Innovators may address KE’s predefined challenge statements or propose their own transformational ideas. The challenge offers these innovators the opportunity to present their ideas to industry experts and receive mentoring sessions to help them enhance the feasibility and scalability of their proposals. Additionally, the top three finalists will receive cash prizes worth over Rs3 million and a potential B2B contract with KE to implement the selected projects.