Tag: Solar

Asia needs to invest around $10 billion in the next few years to make solar power generation competitive with conventional energy sources, the Asian...

Shining like a futuristic lighthouse over a barren desert this is the world's most powerful solar power tower. The 531 foot-tall PS20 tower, located...

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LAHORE - The power source of around 700 billboards and 12,000 mobile towers across Punjab is still to be shifted from electric to solar. Ten months have passed since the Punjab government and the Ministry of Environment National Energy Conversation Center issued warnings to the installations' owners. Converting billboards and cell phone towers from electric power supply to solar energy could save around 50 to 60 Megawatts of electricity but neither the Punjab government nor the

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan will have its first on-grid solar system soon as the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) is going to install an on-grid solar electricity generation system in less than a year at its building in Islamabad. This solar system, first of its kind in Pakistan, will convert six-storied PEC building on solar energy by February 2012.
PEC Chairperson Senator Rukhsana Zuberi said in a press conference on Saturday that the government of Japan extended a grant of 480

KARACHI - When two of her daughters were married off two years ago, Noor Khatoon, a housewife, had barely managed to give her daughters a few handmade items, such as ralli (quilts), bed sheets, hair bands and pillows as dowry; however, she was able to joyously craft a large number of these items for her other two daughters' wedding this time around, which was made possible with a huge electric bulb in her courtyard.
Noor Khatoon lives in a traditional hamlet, Goth Gul Hassan

KARACHI - Despite having the potential of generating 50,000 megawatts of solar energy, the Sindh government is yet to initiate any major solar energy scheme. The only one planned, in 2009, ended up in cold storage due to the apathy of the authorities concerned, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The planned scheme was meant to generate 50MW electricity through solar energy, and was included in the Annual Development Programme (ADP) 2009-10. Interestingly, only a single meeting of Sindh's

KARACHI - The first solar eclipse of 2011 on Tuesday (today) that will also be witnessed in the city will harbinger a sea-related natural disaster that will hit the city in the next few months, predicted Hindu pundit Maharaj Premchand Giyanchandani.
There is a silver lining, however, as the pundit foretold more jobs and better business for most Karachiites. "Karachi comes in the Makar Rasi or Capricorn zone, which means the influence of the sea-goat. The fall of the partial solar

ISLAMABAD: The telecom giant China Mobile's subsidiary in Pakistan, Zong, has emerged as the leader in solar cell sites by converting 150 cell sites on solar power.
According to industry sources, the company has opted for the solar power keeping in view the persistent energy crisis in the country as well as the immense opportunities to generate efficient energy from the sun. Zong currently has the largest solar-powered telecommunication network in Pakistan with over 150 cell