NEDian Leads Solar Energy Initiative in Pakistan - PakAlumni Worldwide: The Global Social Network 2024-03-29T14:40:10Zhttp://www.pakalumni.com/forum/topics/nedian-leads-solar-energy-initiative-in-pakistan?xg_source=activity&id=1119293%3ATopic%3A79837&feed=yes&xn_auth=noInformative article Sir. but…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2015-09-15:1119293:Comment:1038952015-09-15T08:48:32.137ZMehreen Zafarhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/MehreenZafar
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<p>Net metering law comes into effect in #Pakistan for #solarpanels up to 1MW | PV-Tech. #renewables <a href="http://www.pv-tech.org/news/net_metering_law_comes_into_effect_in_pakistan_for_solar_up_to_1mw" target="_blank">http://www.pv-tech.org/news/net_metering_law_comes_into_effect_in_pakistan_for_solar_up_to_1mw</a></p>
<p>Pakistan’s energy regulator, NEPRA (National Electric Power Regulatory Authority), has approved and put into effect net metering schemes for solar and wind generation of…</p>
<p>Net metering law comes into effect in #Pakistan for #solarpanels up to 1MW | PV-Tech. #renewables <a href="http://www.pv-tech.org/news/net_metering_law_comes_into_effect_in_pakistan_for_solar_up_to_1mw" target="_blank">http://www.pv-tech.org/news/net_metering_law_comes_into_effect_in_pakistan_for_solar_up_to_1mw</a></p>
<p>Pakistan’s energy regulator, NEPRA (National Electric Power Regulatory Authority), has approved and put into effect net metering schemes for solar and wind generation of up to 1MW.</p>
<p>The plans were drafted in October 2014 and approved at government level as far back as January of this year. NEPRA made its announcement last week that it was “pleased” to announce what it called a “framework for the regulation of Distributed Generation by using alternative and renewable energy net metering”. The issue of the notification on 1 September put the new scheme into force immediately.</p>
<p>NEPRA will grant generation licences to solar and wind system owners, who will need to register the critical equipment used - the maker and model of inverter and generator being the key components in this regard. Among other technical considerations, the generator must also install a manual disconnect device to take the system off the network if necessary.</p>
<p>Distributed generators that sign up to the scheme must pay a one-off fee to NEPRA. The charges range from PKR500 (US$4.80) for systems between 20kW and 50kW, and up to PKR5,000 for systems of 100kW to 1,000kW, although those of 20kW capacity or below will be exempted.</p>
<p>The scheme also outlines the process under which both would-be generators and distribution companies must operate, including the timeline for approvals. Applicants should receive acknowledgement of receipt from distribution companies within five days of sending in their forms, unless the application form has been filled inadequately, in which case applicants will hear back within seven days. Following that, the distribution company will carry out a technical review – the only part of the process for which an indeterminate time frame is allowed – before replying within three days if connection is not feasible, or within seven working days if approval has been met.</p>
<p>International law firm Eversheds has described Pakistan as “one of the most exciting renewables markets globally, with an abundance of potential”. Last week Eversheds held an event in London with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, where Pakistani government officials and experts discussed the country's renewable energy programmes,</p>
<p>"Pakistan’s renewable market is relatively new but it provides an attractive investment opportunity with compelling structures which make it bankable as well as marketable," Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB) of Pakistan's CEO, Amjad Ali Awansaid said at the event.</p>
<p>"The government has a shared vision and a commitment to developing a clean energy regime. It is supporting investors and developers through various incentives and has removed certain challenges such as making land accessible and aligning project development with grid capacity."</p>
<p>The country has introduced feed-in tariffs (FiTs) for larger systems, leading to companies such as Switzerland’s Meeco to carry out a number of commercial rooftop installations under power purchase agreements (PPAs). Meanwhile aleo Solar, headquartered in Germany but owned by Taiwanese company Sunrise Global Energy, kicked off its involvement in Pakistan in March by providing PV modules to 18 solar systems of 100kWp capacity each in rural areas where diesel is still one of the main sources of fuel. The aleo Solar systems will be linked to energy storage to maximise the use of solar. Similarly, last month meteocontrol China, a subsidiary of Shunfeng International Clean Energy said it would add integrated remote control systems to 100MW of a larger 900MW project in Punjab. The move to add net metering is hoped to add momentum to the residential and smaller scale markets.</p> Half of all new #Energy world…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2015-04-03:1119293:Comment:1019382015-04-03T23:51:53.617ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p><span>Half of all new #Energy world-wide last year was Green. #Solar #Wind <a href="http://www.juancole.com/2015/04/energy-world-green.html" target="_blank">http://www.juancole.com/2015/04/energy-world-green.html</a> …</span><br></br><br></br><span>Prepared by the Frankfurt School-UNEP Collaborating Centre and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the report says that a continuing sharp decline in technology costs – particularly in solar but also in wind – means that every dollar invested in renewable…</span></p>
<p><span>Half of all new #Energy world-wide last year was Green. #Solar #Wind <a href="http://www.juancole.com/2015/04/energy-world-green.html" target="_blank">http://www.juancole.com/2015/04/energy-world-green.html</a> …</span><br/><br/><span>Prepared by the Frankfurt School-UNEP Collaborating Centre and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the report says that a continuing sharp decline in technology costs – particularly in solar but also in wind – means that every dollar invested in renewable energy bought significantly more generating capacity in 2014.</span><br/><span>In what was called “a year of eye-catching steps forward for renewable energy”, the report notes that wind, solar, biomass and waste-to-power, geothermal, small hydro and marine power contributed an estimated 9.1 percent of world electricity generation in 2014, up from 8.5 percent in 2013.</span><br/><span>This, says the report, means that the world’s electricity systems emitted 1.3 gigatonnes of CO2 – roughly twice the emissions of the world’s airline industry – less than it would have if that 9.1 percent had been produced by the same fossil-dominated mix generating the other 90.9 percent of world power.</span><br/><span>“Once again in 2014, renewables made up nearly half of the net power capacity added worldwide,” said Achim Steiner, Executive Director of UNEP. “These climate-friendly energy technologies are now an indispensable component of the global energy mix and their importance will only increase as markets mature, technology prices continue to fall and the need to rein in carbon emissions becomes ever more urgent.”</span><br/><span>China saw by far the biggest renewable energy investments last year – a record 83.3 billion dollars, up 39 percent from 2013. The United States was second at 38.3 billion dollars, up seven percent on the year (although below its all-time high reached in 2011). Third came Japan at 35.7 billion dollars, 10 percent higher than in 2013 and its biggest total ever.</span><br/><span>According to the report, a prominent feature of 2014 was the rapid expansion of renewables into new markets in developing countries, where investments jumped 36 percent to 131.3 billion dollars. China with 83.3 billion, Brazil (7.6 billion), India (7.4 billion) and South Africa (5.5 billion) were all in the top 10 investing countries, while more than one billion dollars was invested in Indonesia, Chile, Mexico, Kenya and Turkey.</span></p> Global Renewable Energy Mappi…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2014-11-14:1119293:Comment:994742014-11-14T05:32:53.289ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p>Global Renewable Energy Mapping Program Gets Underway in Pakistan with First Solar Measurement Station</p>
<p>The first of nine automated solar measuring stations in Pakistan was inaugurated at the Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park in Bahawalpur in October 2014<br></br>The nine stations will transmit daily reports on 10 minute average values for solar radiation levels, temperature, air pressure and wind speed, with the data made publicly available<br></br>Installation will soon be followed by 15 wind…</p>
<p>Global Renewable Energy Mapping Program Gets Underway in Pakistan with First Solar Measurement Station</p>
<p>The first of nine automated solar measuring stations in Pakistan was inaugurated at the Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park in Bahawalpur in October 2014<br/>The nine stations will transmit daily reports on 10 minute average values for solar radiation levels, temperature, air pressure and wind speed, with the data made publicly available<br/>Installation will soon be followed by 15 wind measurement stations in Pakistan, and similar measurement campaigns in eleven other countries</p>
<p>Pakistan has tremendous potential for harnessing wind, solar, biomass and other renewable energy resources to help reduce power cuts and improve access to modern energy services. But the country lacks the high quality resource data at a national scale that is needed to take full advantage of these sources of clean energy.</p>
<p>For the past year, the World Bank and Pakistan’s Alternative Energy Development Board have been working together to map renewable energy resources across the entire country. The project, supported by the World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), will measure Pakistan’s potential for wind, solar and biomass energy by using ground-based data collection, GIS analysis, and geospatial planning. It is part of a broader Renewable Energy Resource Mapping initiative covering 12 countries.</p>
<p>Concluding the first phase of the project, initial maps of solar and wind potential for Pakistan were presented to the government and other stakeholders at an October 15 workshop in Islamabad. The result of months of computer-intensive modeling, these maps represent a significant improvement over previous efforts due to computational advances over the last decade. The maps are based on satellite data and global atmospheric models covering a 10 year period, and can be used to estimate the likely solar or wind potential at any point in the country.</p>
<p>However, to get to the level of confidence required by commercial developers, these modeling results must be compared against actual solar and wind measurements taken from ground-based stations.</p>
<p>A major part of the ESMAP renewable energy mapping initiative is to collect ground-based measurement data for a period of up to two years. This data is then used to improve the models, leading to the production of solar and wind atlases with a margin of error of as low as 5 percent. These in turn can be used by governments to set tariffs and guide the strategic development of renewable energy, and by commercial developers to carry out feasibility studies, leading to development of solar and wind power plants.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2014/11/12/global-wbg-renewable-energy-mapping-program-gets-underway-in-pakistan-with-first-solar-measurement-station" target="_blank">http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2014/11/12/global-wbg-renewable-energy-mapping-program-gets-underway-in-pakistan-with-first-solar-measurement-station</a></p> Benoist Bazin, Head of Sectio…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2014-11-03:1119293:Comment:994602014-11-03T05:20:20.028ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p>Benoist Bazin, Head of Section, Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Pakistan on Thursday inaugurated the EU-funded 'High Pressure Cogeneration for sugar sector in Pakistan (HP Cogen-Pak)' under the EU SWITCH ASIA Programme. The programme will support the local sugar sector to upgrade towards high pressure boiler technology and enable them to export electricity to the national grid.</p>
<p>"This programme is focusing on providing support to the sugar sector, financial sector, technology…</p>
<p>Benoist Bazin, Head of Section, Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Pakistan on Thursday inaugurated the EU-funded 'High Pressure Cogeneration for sugar sector in Pakistan (HP Cogen-Pak)' under the EU SWITCH ASIA Programme. The programme will support the local sugar sector to upgrade towards high pressure boiler technology and enable them to export electricity to the national grid.</p>
<p>"This programme is focusing on providing support to the sugar sector, financial sector, technology providers and the public sector in popularising High Pressure Cogeneration Technology," said Bazin during his keynote speech at the ceremony. "The programme aims at achieving this by supporting sugar mills through technology standardisation, enabling access to finance, and mobilising relevant public sector authorities.</p>
<p>Given the background of electricity supply constraint that Pakistan is facing these days, Bazin added that promotion of High Pressure Cogeneration would promote not only energy security of Pakistan, but also generate electricity from renewable fuels.</p>
<p>Highlighting the various activities, Omar Malik, Project Director of HP Cogen-Pak project informed the participants that the project was currently working with 35 sugar mills, 14 financial institutions and five technology providers. Seven bankable feasibility studies are already underway. Need assessment of financial sector is in the pipeline while capacity building of Pakistani boiler manufactures is also expected to start in December 2014.</p>
<p>The event was attended by representatives of Ministry of Water and Power, National Electric Power Regulatory Authority, Private Power Infrastructure Board, Alternative Energy Development Board, State Bank of Pakistan, Climate Change Division, Pakistani boiler manufacturers and sugar mill representatives.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.brecorder.com/agriculture-a-allied/183/1238159/" target="_blank">http://www.brecorder.com/agriculture-a-allied/183/1238159/</a></p> Here's a News story on sugar…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2014-01-22:1119293:Comment:960042014-01-22T04:13:27.380ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p>Here's a <a href="http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-3-226623-Sugar-mills-opting-for-co-generation-power-projects">News story</a> on sugar mills co-generation potentially adding 1500-3000 MW of electricity into Pakistan's national grid:</p>
<p><i>KARACHI: In order to take advantage of the incentives offered by the government of Pakistan and to integrate the expansion project for future mill operations, two sugar mills in Sindh have propose to implement co-generation power projects,…</i></p>
<p>Here's a <a href="http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-3-226623-Sugar-mills-opting-for-co-generation-power-projects">News story</a> on sugar mills co-generation potentially adding 1500-3000 MW of electricity into Pakistan's national grid:</p>
<p><i>KARACHI: In order to take advantage of the incentives offered by the government of Pakistan and to integrate the expansion project for future mill operations, two sugar mills in Sindh have propose to implement co-generation power projects, official sources said.</i></p>
<p><i>Ranipur Sugar Mill and Chamber Sugar Mill have submitted their applications with the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) for grant of generation licence for cumulative generation of 32MW.</i></p>
<p><i>The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet in its meeting held on March 6, 2013, had approved the framework for power cogeneration 2013 bagasse and biomass as an addendum to the Renewable Energy Policy 2006. This framework is effective for all high pressure cogeneration projects, utilising bagasse and biomass, the officials said.</i></p>
<p><i>Nepra had already approved Rs10.50 per unit as the upfront tariff for power generation through sugar mills by utilising sugarcane bagasse.</i></p>
<p><i>According to Nepra spokesman, this upfront tariff has been approved to encourage sugar mills to generate around 1,500 megawatts on fast-track basis.</i></p>
<p><i>The applicants said, at present, hydel generation is costing Rs2.50 per unit, generation through natural gas is costing around Rs5 per unit, thermal generation from Rs14 to Rs18 per unit and electricity generated through diesel is costing Rs23 to Rs28 per unit.</i></p>
<p><i>The approval of upfront tariff for sugar mills will encourage sugar mills to plan their investment in this new sector for steering the country out of the power crisis. The government plans to generate around 3,000MW of cheaper electricity through sugarcane bagasse on fast-track basis and investors will be facilitated and encouraged, the official said.</i></p>
<p><i>Necessary amendments will also be made in the existing co-generation and renewable energy policies to make it simplified and investor-friendly.</i></p>
<p><i>Pakistan is the fifth largest producer of sugarcane with the production of 50 million tons of sugarcane annually, yielding over 10 million tons of bagasse.</i></p>
<p><i>Power generation from bagasse will not only reduce the furnace oil import but also save Rs33 billion to Rs49 billion worth of foreign exchange per annum.</i></p>
<p><i>The country has 87 sugar mills with the capacity to generate 3,000MW from bagasse in winter season.</i></p>
<p><i>Currently, seven sugar mills sell their surplus power to government, including Layyah Sugar Mills with an installed capacity of 9.2MW, exports 4MW; Hamza Sugar Mills operates 23.6MW plant, whereas Shakarganj Sugar Mills operates a 20MW co-generation power plant.</i></p>
<p><i>Al-Noor Sugar Mills generates 21.8MW and now plans to increase its capacity to 36.8MW. Rahim Yar Khan Sugar Mills generates 18MW and sells 10MW. Likewise, Al-Moiz Sugar Mills generates 27MW and exports 15MW, while JDW Sugar Mills generates 22MW with a surplus of 10MW.</i></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-3-226623-Sugar-mills-opting-for-co-generation-power-projects" target="_blank">http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-3-226623-Sugar-mills-opting-for-co-generation-power-projects</a></p> Here's an Express Tribune sto…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2013-09-28:1119293:Comment:952272013-09-28T04:58:45.449ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p>Here's an <a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/610390/unido-promotes-biomass-gasification-in-pakistan/">Express Tribune</a> story on biomass energy in Pakistan:</p>
<p><i>Power generation from biomass gasification could help meet a significant portion of Pakistan’s industrial energy needs, Federal Minister of Information, Senator Pervez Rasheed, said on Friday.<br></br> Rasheed was speaking as the chief guest at the inception workshop of a new project for promotion of biomass gasification…</i></p>
<p>Here's an <a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/610390/unido-promotes-biomass-gasification-in-pakistan/">Express Tribune</a> story on biomass energy in Pakistan:</p>
<p><i>Power generation from biomass gasification could help meet a significant portion of Pakistan’s industrial energy needs, Federal Minister of Information, Senator Pervez Rasheed, said on Friday.<br/> Rasheed was speaking as the chief guest at the inception workshop of a new project for promotion of biomass gasification technology by the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (Unido).<br/>
Biomass gasification is a process to generate cheap energy by burning organic material such as organic waste and wood among other things.<br/>
Rasheed said Unido’s efforts at developing a biomass project have immense importance for Pakistan. He said biomass gasification offers the most convincing alternate energy system for industries.<br/>
The project is likely to result in improved energy security and economic growth in the country, the minister said.<br/>
The four-year “Promoting Sustainable Energy Production and Use from Biomass in Pakistan” project is funded by $1.82 million from the Global Environment Facility – an international institution that provides grants for environment-related projects.<br/>
Another $5.3 million will be provided by Unido, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (Smeda), Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF), Sindh Agriculture and Forestry Workers Coordinating Organisation (SAFWCO), Centre for Energy Systems at the National University of Sciences and Technology (CES-NUST) and other entities from the Pakistani private sector.<br/>
The project’s finances will be used to develop three separate “demonstration projects” in Kamoke and Jhelum in Punjab, and Thatta in Sindh, which will generate overall 4.3 Megawatts (MW) from biomass gasification technology, said Muhammad Ahmad, the National Project Manager for the project.<br/>
The demonstration projects include a 3 MW rice husk gasification power plant in Kamoke, a 1 MW Wood Residue gasification power plant in Jehlum and a 0.3 MW electricity provision to a village near Gharo in Thatta.<br/>
Ahmad said the project aims to promote biomass gasification in Pakistan as a means to decrease the country’s demand and supply gap in the power sector.<br/>
“We want to build the capacity of local manufacturers so they could produce gasification technologies for electricity generation,” he said. “The demonstration projects could help us tell investors that power generation through biomass gasification is economically viable and can be replicated.”<br/>
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and other industries could use biomass gasification to generate their own electricity and this would help industries avoid the negative impact of the power crisis, he said.</i></p>
<p><a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/610390/unido-promotes-biomass-gasification-in-pakistan/" target="_blank">http://tribune.com.pk/story/610390/unido-promotes-biomass-gasification-in-pakistan/</a></p> Here's a World Bank news rele…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2013-06-27:1119293:Comment:932752013-06-27T03:22:07.208ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p>Here's a <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2013/06/17/mapping-the-energy-revolution">World Bank</a> news release on mapping Pakistan's renewable energy resources:</p>
<p><i>Pakistan encapsulates the renewable energy challenge faced by many developing and emerging countries. Despite abundant renewable resources – including solar, wind, hydropower and biomass – very little of this potential has been utilized. At the same time, about a third of the country’s people do not have…</i></p>
<p>Here's a <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2013/06/17/mapping-the-energy-revolution">World Bank</a> news release on mapping Pakistan's renewable energy resources:</p>
<p><i>Pakistan encapsulates the renewable energy challenge faced by many developing and emerging countries. Despite abundant renewable resources – including solar, wind, hydropower and biomass – very little of this potential has been utilized. At the same time, about a third of the country’s people do not have access to electricity.</i></p>
<p><i>Pakistan has ambitious plans for solar and wind projects, and has developed a comprehensive policy framework for renewable energy, but projects on the ground remain few and far between.</i></p>
<p><i>What accounts for this gap? “One major reason is a lack of credible resource data,” says Arif Alauddin, the former CEO of Pakistan’s Alternative Energy Development Board, and now Managing Director of the National Energy Conservation Center.</i></p>
<p><i>While high-level solar and wind maps are widely available, these do not contain the granular data required by governments to understand the country’s full resource potential and needed by the private sector to identify specific sites for development.</i></p>
<p><i>To address this challenge, Pakistan and eight other countries are joining with the World Bank in a new Renewable Energy Mapping Program to carry out mapping of renewable energy resources that will for the first time produce rich, nationwide data for each country. Coordinated and financed by the World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), the initiative will cover mapping of solar, wind, biomass, and small hydropower potential.</i></p>
<p><i>“The importance of this resource mapping [for Pakistan] cannot be overstated,” says Arif Alauddin. “The country’s energy shortage is unprecedented, tariffs are going up, and petroleum imports are eating up a large share of export earnings. There is a need to shift to domestic renewable energy resources.”<br/> ----------<br/>
We expect this initiative to be highly catalytic,” said Oliver Knight, Senior Energy Specialist at ESMAP. “Resource mapping is a crucial step in providing the resource and policy certainty that commercial developers need to scale up investment in renewables. In addition, government authorities will be better informed in negotiations on specific projects, and donors will have a clearer sense of the data and capacity needs, as well as the renewable potential, of clients.”</i></p>
<p><i>As well as mapping, the program will support a wide variety of activities, including consolidation and validation of existing datasets, work to standardize resource assessment methodologies, and capacity development of local institutions and experts. An open data repository will be developed to facilitate free and open access to the data, and the geospatial outputs (GIS layers) will be made available via a new web portal. The outputs will also be made available to the Global Atlas for Solar and Wind that has been developed by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the Clean Energy Ministerial.</i></p>
<p><i>The program is one of a number of initiatives the World Bank Group is undertaking in support of the global Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) campaign. One goal of the initative is to double to the share of renewable power in the global energy mix from 18 percent to 36 percent by 2030. According to the SE4ALL Global Tracking Framework report produced by a multi-agency team led by the World Bank and released on May 28, renewable energy (excluding biomass) made up only 1.6 percent of total final energy consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa, and 1.8 percent in Southern Asia, as of 2010.</i></p>
<p><i>“The resource mapping initiative will open a floodgate of possibilities for both large and smaller investors, as well as for consumers who desperately need new energy options,” Arif Alauddin said.</i></p>
<p><a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2013/06/17/mapping-the-energy-revolution" target="_blank">http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2013/06/17/mapping-the-energy-revolution</a></p> Here's an ELP report on Pakis…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2013-03-01:1119293:Comment:902972013-03-01T17:44:39.579ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p>Here's an <a href="http://www.elp.com/news/2013/02/28/pakistan-president-signs-irena-membership-for-pakistan.html">ELP report</a> on Pakistan joining International Renewable Energy Agency:</p>
<p><i>President Asif Ali Zardari, Tuesday, signed the Instrument of Ratification for Pakistan to become a member of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).</i></p>
<p><i>Spokesperson to the President Senator Farhatullah Babar said that the International Renewable Energy Agency that was…</i></p>
<p>Here's an <a href="http://www.elp.com/news/2013/02/28/pakistan-president-signs-irena-membership-for-pakistan.html">ELP report</a> on Pakistan joining International Renewable Energy Agency:</p>
<p><i>President Asif Ali Zardari, Tuesday, signed the Instrument of Ratification for Pakistan to become a member of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).</i></p>
<p><i>Spokesperson to the President Senator Farhatullah Babar said that the International Renewable Energy Agency that was founded on 26th Jan 2009 in Bonn, Germany, aims to promote widespread and increased adoption and the sustainable use of all forms of renewable energy.</i></p>
<p><i>To-date 149 countries have signed the statute of IRENA while 76 have ratified it. The Spokesperson said that recognizing the advantages of this international forum, Pakistan took active part in the formative phase of IRENA and participated actively in the preparatory meetings that were held before this forum was formally established.</i></p>
<p><i>He said that Pakistan signed the Statute of IRENA in June 2009 and became the 87th country to sign the statute.</i></p>
<p><i>The IRENA facilitates its member's access to all relevant renewable energy information, including technical data, economic data and resource potential data. It shares lessons learnt on international best practices, policy frameworks, capacity building, financial mechanism, technology transfer and related energy efficiency measures.</i></p>
<p><i>In view of the current energy shortage, the growing demands of an increasing population, the financial constraints and environmental concerns, the President has continuously been urging for adoption of alternative means of energy generation at the earliest possible, the Spokesperson said.</i></p>
<p><i>By becoming a member of IRENA, Pakistan stands to gain significantly, he said</i></p>
<p><a href="http://www.elp.com/news/2013/02/28/pakistan-president-signs-irena-membership-for-pakistan.html" target="_blank">http://www.elp.com/news/2013/02/28/pakistan-president-signs-irena-membership-for-pakistan.html</a></p> Here's a Daily Times report o…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2012-11-13:1119293:Comment:891222012-11-13T04:59:09.889ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p>Here's a <a href="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012/11/13/story_13-11-2012_pg5_3">Daily Times</a> report on planned biogas power plant in Karachi:</p>
<p><i>ISLAMABAD: IFC, a member of the World Bank Group is advising a Pakistan-based biogas company on the development of a waste-to-energy plant in Landhi, Karachi turning a serious environmental problem into a renewable energy resource.</i></p>
<p><i>The plant to be built by Karachi Organic Energy (KOEL) will convert cow…</i></p>
<p>Here's a <a href="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012/11/13/story_13-11-2012_pg5_3">Daily Times</a> report on planned biogas power plant in Karachi:</p>
<p><i>ISLAMABAD: IFC, a member of the World Bank Group is advising a Pakistan-based biogas company on the development of a waste-to-energy plant in Landhi, Karachi turning a serious environmental problem into a renewable energy resource.</i></p>
<p><i>The plant to be built by Karachi Organic Energy (KOEL) will convert cow manure into electricity while producing organic fertilizer as a byproduct. IFC will provide KOEL-a joint venture between Karachi Electric Supply Company Limited (KESC) and the Amman Foundation with advice on project development and financing.</i></p>
<p><i>When completed, it will generate up to 22 megawatts of power from animal waste that was currently being discharged directly into the sea. There is tremendous potential in this biogas project, said Tabish Gauhar, CEO of KESC. Its footprint extends beyond power generation. It will have a positive effect on the community and importantly on the environment. The plant will be the largest biogas project in the country and it is expected to serve as a model for future developments.</i></p>
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