This study was focused on creating a centre at LUMS that will serve as a think tank, centre of technical excellence, knowledge network, and capacity building entity for the government to institutionalize a renewable rich future for Pakistan in the most sustainable and cost-effective way possible. This basis of this centre was laid on four objectives namely, Power & Energy Planning, Adoption of Renewable Energy Technologies, Grid Modernisation, Energy Markets & Data Analytics, and Capacity Development. This centre would employ a new type of electricity grid where both the generation and loads can be controlled. This new grid commonly known as the Smart Grid is currently an active area of research in the research community. In addition to a power layer, this grid has an over-laid communication layer that transmits data between its key components. In fact, the data from the smart grid is expected to be so enormous that in future the smart grid is set to be the largest data network after the Internet. The smart grid will manage the renewable energy matching with the demand through innovate demand-side management (DSM) techniques.