Islamabad
May 2, 2021
Islamabad : Enhancing public-private partnership, streamlining financial instruments in and paving grounds for increasing power purchase agreement (PPA)-based contracts is the only way forward for creating a conducive environment for third party intervention in solar based distributed generation in the country.
This was the gist of the thoughts shared in a consultative session on ‘Prospects of Third-Party Intervention Framework and Business Models for Photovoltaic-based Distributed Generation’ at the Institute of Policy Studies.
The event was organised to assess and discuss business models to foster solar PV-based distributed generation uptake for commercial and industrial power sector consumers.
Chaired by former water and power secretary Mirza Hamid Hasan and co-chaired by IPS Chairman Khalid Rahman, the deliberation was addressed by energy experts and practitioners like Dr Irfan Yousuf, consultant renewable energy, National Electric Power Regulatory
Top Story
January 26, 2021
ISLAMABAD: China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Chairman Authority Lt General (R) Asim Saleem Bajwa said on Monday that no CPEC project was on hold and the work was never slowed down. He said, “Work on the eastern western and central alignments was in full swing and the second phase of the project was just beginning. He said that underdeveloped areas, especially southern parts of Balochistan, were being given importance under CPEC.
He said a dam and a desalination plant had been built in Gwadar in a bid to resolve chronic water shortages, affecting the inhabitants. An airport, with the biggest runway of Pakistan, is also being built in Gwadar, he said.
No CPEC project on hold, says Asim Bajwa
Top Story
January 26, 2021
ISLAMABAD: China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Chairman Authority Lt General (R) Asim Saleem Bajwa said on Monday that no CPEC project was on hold and the work was never slowed down.
He said, “Work on the eastern western and central alignments was in full swing and the second phase of the project was just beginning. He said that underdeveloped areas, especially southern parts of Balochistan, were being given importance under CPEC.
He said a dam and a desalination plant had been built in Gwadar in a bid to resolve chronic water shortages, affecting the inhabitants. An airport, with the biggest runway of Pakistan, is also being built in Gwadar, he said.
Islamabad
December 27, 2020
Islamabad : There was a broad consensus among key stakeholders during a consultative meeting on the need for checking coal-based power generation in the country and diverting 60 per cent of the total energy mix to renewable energy by 2030.
The meeting was held at the Institute of Policy Studies to discuss IPS study on barriers surrounding distributed generation with IPS executive president Khalid Rahman in the chair.
The event was moderated by former water and power secretary Mirza Hamid Hasan and addressed by Asad Mehmood of the National Energy Efficiency Conservation Authority, Aftab Ahmad Awan of the Planning Commission, Neshmiya A Khan, Hamza Butt and Maryam Arshad of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Zeeshan Ashfaq of the World Wind Energy Association Pakistan (WWEA), Mushtaq Gaadi of the Quaid-i-Azam University, and Dr Azhar Lashari and Haneea Isaad of the Rural Development Policy Institute (RDPI).
National
December 23, 2020
Islamabad: There was a broad consensus among key stakeholders during a consultative meeting on the need for checking coal-based power generation in the country and diverting 60 per cent of the total energy mix to renewable energy by 2030.
The meeting was held at the Institute of Policy Studies to discuss IPS study on barriers surrounding distributed generation with IPS executive president Khalid Rahman in the chair. The event was moderated by former water and power secretary Mirza Hamid Hasan and addressed by Asad Mehmood of the National Energy Efficiency Conservation Authority, Aftab Ahmad Awan of the Planning Commission, Neshmiya A Khan, Hamza Butt and Maryam Arshad of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Zeeshan Ashfaq of the World Wind Energy Association Pakistan (WWEA), Mushtaq Gaadi of the Quaid-i-Azam University, and Dr Azhar Lashari and Haneea Isaad of the Rural Development Policy Institute (RDPI).