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By Jawwad Rizvi
KALLAR KAHAR: A Chinese company, in a bid to tap the potential of wind power in Punjab, has set up four wind mills with a total capacity of producing 50 kilowatts of electricity.Read More »Wind mills set up in Punjab to generate power
In India, waste-to-energy projects have been successfully implemented since 1995. Most of the initiatives are designed to harvest energy from the waste produced by industries, e.g. the waste of palm oil industries in Andhra Pradesh and the poultry droppings of one million birds of nearby poultry farms in Tamil Nadu
The worst ever energy crisis in
the history of Pakistan has not been overcome yet, even when two years have passed since the present government took charge in February 2008. The minister for water and power stipulated several deadlines to overcome the crisis on different forums, but no effort has brought us fruitful results.Read More »A solution for the energy crisis in Pakistan —Bilal Naqeeb
Associated Press of Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Unless Pakistan starts using coal directly as a substitute for gas consumption in the power plant and other industries, it may not be able to meet the growing demand of gas which has a major role in national economy.Read More »Use of indigenous coal reserves must to overcome energy crisis in Pakistan
By Umer Bhatti
THE Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB) commissioned only one pilot project of producing electricity from wind energy in 2009 in collaboration with SUNEC China at Kalarkahar, having a capacity of 10x2KW while no practical steps were taken for power generation from solar energy.Read More »Alternative energy resources untapped in Pakistan
BEIJING: China is set to become the world’s third largest wind power producer in 2009, state media reported, as the Asian giant seeks various ways to expand energy supply to power its economic boom.
Read More »China to be world’s third windpower producer
By Chaudhry Kamran Naseer
The use of solar energy for human perquisites is not something new. It has been used for decades by a number of countries due to the various benefits it provides to people, most notably for power production. Thus, its demand has been increasing day by day because of concerns about the lack of availability of fossil fuels for producing power in near future, which has led to rise in petroleum products and the global climatic change that is taking place owing to carbon emissions from fossil fuels.Read More »Solar energy: perpetual low-cost power generation