Tag: Solar

KWSB initiates setting up solar plants

Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) had started work on its project of setting solar power plants at the pumping stations to ensure smooth...

China launches US solar dumping probe

China on Friday started a probe into alleged US dumping of solar products and government subsidies for the sector, the latest volley in a...

SOLAR SYSTEM IN DOLDRUMS

Despite tall claims of the Capital Development Authority (CDA), the project of shifting tube-wells to solar energy could not be completed even after the...

Going solar

The Race Course Park in Lahore has had solar panels installed in it for long. It is great to see that the park is...

LOGITECH K760 WIRELESS SOLAR KEYBOARD

What Is It? The Logitech K760 is a wireless, solar-powered keyboard designed for Apple devices (Mac, iPhone, iPad). It switches between the three with...

Sindh threw caution to the wind; Punjab bathes in sunshine

The lukewarm response of the Sindh government to the wind power investors has shifted a majority of interested investors in the solar power to...

PM announces Rs 50m for solar energy projects

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Monday announced a sum of Rs 50 million for a solar system project in the budget for generating...

Wind, solar, alternate energy development authority be created

The Government of Sindh should create Wind, Solar, Alternative Energy Development and Manufacturing Authority on the pattern of the Sindh Coal Development Authority. ...

PM directs for implementation of solar on-grid projects

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has directed for immediate implementation of solar on-grid projects and solar water pumping in Balochistan‚ Punjab and Sindh...

Energy-starved Pakistan sees the light on solar power

From mosques, to homes and streets, Pakistanis are increasingly seeing the light and realising that year-round sun may be a cheap if partial answer...

PM wants solar power projects for far-flung villages

Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday directed the ministries of finance and water and power to provide solar electricity to far-flung villages,...

0.08pc Balochistan solar energy can serve national needs

Being a patriotic Pakistani one tends to do some good for his homeland only to find a deep-rooted corruption, lack of good governance, transparency...

Sh-e-Faisal and Sh-e-Quaideen to be first to go solar

Solar-powered streetlights would first be installed along the Shahrah-e-Faisal and the Shahrah-e-Quaideen and then in the rest of the city, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC)...

China shuts solar plant after violent protests

China shut down a solar panel factory on Monday after hundreds of angry residents staged days of violent protests over pollution, the second such...

A blow to the solar plexus

For an Average Joe Investor, this past week must have been one forgettable traumatic experience. Seeing the value of the stock you own plunge...

At a speed of 40 kilometres per hour, solar power isn’t...

The students of Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology (SSUET) have developed a ‘solar car’, which won the second prize in the recent...

‘Solar pumps to help agri sector’

Several schemes have been introduced to facilitate farmers such as the solar pumps scheme so that farmers can install pumps along their fields without...