Tag: Power
WAPDA plans to generate 20,000 megawatt till 2022: chairman
The Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) Chairman Syed Raghib Abbas Shah has said on Saturday that the authority will complete mega projects for...
Iran to finance $300m power supply project in Pakistan
Iran will finance a power supply project in Pakistan, valued at $300 million, ISNA quoted Iranian deputy energy minister Mohammad Behzad as saying.
A joint...
Beauty queen causes power outage
Sarah J. Richardson has a smile that could light up a town — a service the town really could have used after cops say...
Government faces tough time in NA over power, gas crises
Legislators from across the political divide voiced a strong protest in the National Assembly (NA) against rampant inflation, unprecedented load shedding and growing unemployment...
National Power Generation Plan 2007 fails
The National Power Generation Plan 2007 has failed to achieve its set targets of power production through indigenous resources and needs the attention of...
Japan conservatives deliver crushing defeat to ruling liberals
The Liberal Democratic Power, which once dominated Japanese politics, will again hold power after three years of center-left rule. The LDP and its coalition...
Turkish ambassador wants Karkey Power Plant issue settled
Turkish Ambassador Mustafa Babur Hizlan said on Saturday that the issue of Karkey Power Plant should be settled as soon as possible because prolonging...
Ukraine’s Chernobyl site reaches milestone
Work to build a permanent shelter to secure the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine has reached a key milestone...
Power crisis to continue until year 2020: NEPRA
Power crisis in Pakistan may continue until year 2020 whereas there is no short-term solution to the issue.
This was revealed in a report of...
SAARC’s power lag = 50,000MW
The leaders of business community and have reiterated the need tap energy potential in South Asia which is must for maintainable growth and economic...
Energy-starved Punjab sees the light in solar power
Recently, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Solar Energy Project was signed between the Punjab government and Germany’s Solar Power Project Development Firm in...
Contract award for works of 1410-MW Tarbela Project in March 2013:...
Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) Chairman Raghib Shah on Friday said that the contract for civil works of the 1410 mega watt...
Committee to work out modalities to withdraw 350MW power from KESC
The federal minister for water and power Ahmed Mukhtar has said that 350 MW which was earlier provided to KESC would be added in...
Rental power plants: SC criticises NAB over inaction
During Thursday’s hearing of the rental power projects case, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said the national exchequer was plundered through corruption in the...
EU provides 1.2 m euros grant for climate study of Munda...
The European Union (EU) on Monday provided 1.2 million Euros as grant to conduct climate change impact assessment study in Swat basin for Munda...
Sandy death toll 70, 3.75 mn Americans still without power
More than 3.75 million people up and down US East Coast were still without power as cities and towns started recovering from the wrath...
Power rates jacked up by 5 paisas
The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) on Wednesday raised the power tariff by five paisas per unit.
A hearing was held in this...
