Browsing Tag Solar
Factors to consider before buying a Solar PV system
By Technology Times at September 18, 2012 | 5:00 pm | 0 Comment
By Samir Ahmad OWING TO the unprecedented level of power shortage being faced throughout the major cities and villages of Pakistan, a substantial demand of quick and reliable power solutions for household and industrial application has been observed. People have now started understanding that quick fixes in the form of UPS (Uninterrupted power supplies) and more...
Pakistan can generate 140,000MW solar, wind power
By Technology Times at August 24, 2012 | 5:47 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT ISB: The energy crisis-hit Pakistan is have energy sources in near future, as according to sources, a fresh USAID report found that Pakistan has about 150,000 MW of wind power potential. One source said it is planning 25,000 MW in wind power installations by 2015. The report also said that one area — the Sindh corridor — has a wind power potential of more...
Punjab govt to give solar home panels worth Rs2b
By Technology Times at August 24, 2012 | 5:42 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT LHR: The Punjab government has announced to provide solar home panels at a cost of Rs2 billion while sewing machines worth Rs1 billion will be distributed among skilled women. “These revolutionary programmes, initiated at a cost of billions of rupees for the youth in the province, are yielding positive results,” said Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz more...
Apricus, Boutiue Carbon to introduce solar thermal
By Technology Times at August 7, 2012 | 12:29 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Apricus Solar Co. Ltd., an manufacturer and supplier of solar hot water solutions to the global market, has signed a MoU with Boutique Carbon (Pvt.) Limited of Pakistan, under which the solar thermal would be introduced in the country in order to resolve the energy crisis. "With an energy crisis in Pakistan resulting in daily power blackouts and high more...
NA body questions high price of 4000 solar tube wells
By Technology Times at July 18, 2012 | 1:01 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Textile Industry, while taking notice of the exorbitant price estimates of up to Rs 3 million of each solar tube well in the country, has questioned this price saying when this technology is available in the market at Rs 1.5 million as maximum price, then why the Planning Commission has fixed these estimates so more...
Pak students design solar car
By Technology Times at July 10, 2012 | 1:16 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Students of physics at a university in Pakistan have designed a solar car and want to introduce the energy-friendly and pollution-free vehicle commercially.. According to details, Raja Imran, Sabeen Dilawar, Adnan Sultan, Sundus Nawaz, Wajahat Ali, Zainab Liaqat and Mohammad Tahir – the students of Hazara University in Mansehra of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa more...
Pakistan eyes solar power potential
By Technology Times at June 23, 2012 | 5:22 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Energy companies working in Pakistan have said that plans for a 50-megawatt solar power plant would help the country avert a long-term energy crisis. German solar energy company Conergy has recently announced that it has teamed with Hong Kong project developer Ensunt to build a 50-megawatt solar power plant in Pakistan. Conergy described the more...
Pakistan to have 50-MW solar power plant
By Technology Times at June 23, 2012 | 5:07 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The German energy company Conergy is working with Hong Kong-based Ensunt to build a 50-megawatt solar plant in Bahawalpur, in the Cholistan region of Pakistan. According to a Conergy press release, when completed, the plant will be the biggest solar facility in the country; it will be owned by the Pakistani government and the DACC Power Generation more...
NBP launches first solar ATM in Pakistan
By Technology Times at June 23, 2012 | 5:06 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT KHI: National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) at Defence Housing Society Branch, Korangi Road launched first solar ATM. This ATM functions with solar energy without its much dependence on generated electricity. NBP intends to install ATMs on solar energy so as to use natural resources without misuse of generated electricity and more...
Solar trough for air-conditioning and process heat
By Technology Times at June 18, 2012 | 4:54 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_17075" align="alignleft" width="125" caption="Saeed Hussain"][/caption] SOLAR TROUGH systems use linear concentrators of parabolic shape with highly reflective surfaces, which can be turned into angular movements towards the sun position and concentrate the radiation onto a long-line receiving absorber tube. The absorbed solar energy is more...
Pakistan’s first solar power system goes online
By Technology Times at June 2, 2012 | 2:04 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Realising the country’s growing demand for power to operate industries, agriculture and domestic sector, the government of Pakistan has initiated several projects to resolve the persistent energy crisis. “The projects commenced by the government not only look to tap conventional sources but also the renewable energy resources including wind, solar more...
Solar energy – a solution to crisis
By Technology Times at June 2, 2012 | 1:02 pm | 0 Comment
By Muhammad Rahimuddin WE ARE fortunate to live in a country that offers a multitude of natural resources yet to be harnessed for their entire potential. Arguably the most important of these, with reference to the present atrocious energy crisis and the intensifying effects of climate change, are the renewable sources of energy. It is imperative that not only the more...
Pakistan can generate 2.3m MW thru solar
By Technology Times at May 15, 2012 | 4:03 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Pakistan has a potential to generate over 2.324 million megawatts electricity annually through solar system and in this connection industrialists should come forward and contribute in overcoming the energy crisis facing the country. The power generated through solar system can easily meet even the future industrial and domestic energy demand of the more...
9 LoIs issued to generate 228MW solar power
By Technology Times at May 9, 2012 | 11:43 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Ministry of Water and Power has issued nine Letters of Intent (LOIs) to different Solar Independent Power Producers (IPPs) to produce cumulative capacity of 228 MW electricity. A senior official at the Ministry has said that these small and big projects are at various stages of development and once executed would help generate electricity for the more...
Pakistan to get 400 solar-powered well pumps
By Technology Times at April 30, 2012 | 1:08 pm | 1 Comments
STAFF REPORT IBD: PTCL, the country’s largest and only integrated telecom service provider, has recently commemorated the international Earth Day by kicking off a tree plantation campaign at its headquarters in Islamabad. The company officials and employees attended the ceremony while Senior Executive Vice President HR, Syed Mazhar Hussain launched the tree plantation more...
Solar energy set-ups ‘on lease’
By Technology Times at April 21, 2012 | 3:58 pm | 0 Comment
WITH THE high increases in electricity prices, it is (high) time alternatives were considered. Citizens and the government should start working on projects that can save a lot of cost and help produce energy through natural ways, such as solar power and the generation of electricity through windmills. The increasing durations of loadshedding and the multiplying of more...
Solar-PV streetlights enter Pakistan…..
By Technology Times at April 16, 2012 | 3:20 pm | 0 Comment
By Faryal Najeeb Measures are being taken to power streetlights on all major roads in Karachi and Hyderabad with solar energy. Deputy Commissioner South, Mustafa Jamal Qazi, spoke to Technology Times and explained much more about the project details How did the government conceptualize the idea of installing solar-powered street lights? MUSATFA JAMAL QAZI: President more...
The prospects of solar energy for power generation
By Technology Times at April 16, 2012 | 3:15 pm | 0 Comment
By Dr. Noor Fatima THE COUNTRY is presently confronted by a severe energy crisis that has jeopardized the national industrial production on the one hand and made the lives of people miserable, especially students. There is a close link between energy security and overall development. The latter will continue to deteriorate if the major problem of power outages is not more...
Cheaper options for solar power
By Technology Times at April 16, 2012 | 3:09 pm | 0 Comment
By Hussain Ahmad Siddiqui RAPID DEVELOPMENT in solar energy technologies has made it an alternative to fossil-fuel power generation in many countries. But Pakistan does not have to depend on borrowed ideas for generating bulk solar power at a high cost, when other economical options are available. In a bid to overcome electricity loadshedding, the Punjab government more...
The wasted solar solution
By Technology Times at April 16, 2012 | 3:08 pm | 0 Comment
By Najma Sadeque via TET THE MOST embittering aspect of the mass misery over electricity is that the crippling shortages never had to happen. Pakistan could have adopted solar energy years ago if government priorities had focused less on protectionist privatisation and more on people. The number of solar-electrified homes in Bangladesh recently numbered a million. This more...
Alternative energy solution for Pakistan – Solar Power
By Technology Times at April 16, 2012 | 3:07 pm | 0 Comment
By Faisal Khan via faisalkhan.com ENERGY, OR more specifically alternative energy has always been a solution aimed at this world that is currently depended on fossil-fuel (oil) based energy. In Pakistan, this is no different. However, massive adaptation of alternative energy sources is missing. I keep wondering why? Most of the people in the finance world I talk to more...
How about Solar-isation?
By Technology Times at April 16, 2012 | 3:05 pm | 0 Comment
By Anusha Sherazi SOLAR POWER! When we think about it, the first impression is, is this a miracle? Is this something super natural? How could the sunlight run homes, cars, businesses? Something, which give us energy without pollution? Something which produces electricity but needs no fossil fuels? Energy that runs appliances, vehicles, factories, buildings, but no more...
Pakistan missing the solar bandwagon
By Technology Times at April 16, 2012 | 3:00 pm | 0 Comment
By Faiza Ilyas EXPERT OPINIONED, country’s progress in exploring solar potential for electricity generation was depressingly slow despite having perfect conditions for the same. Pakistan should learn from countries such as Bangladesh, which witnessed the fastest expansion of solar use in the world that, according to a World Bank report, changed the face of its more...
Wrong perception halting progress of solar panels
By Technology Times at April 14, 2012 | 2:59 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Wrong perception about the unreliability of technology is halting the progress of solar panels in Pakistan that needs to be removed in order to promote the solar energy option. “The general public are led to believe that the technology runs the risk of developing faults,” said Shaaf Mehboob, Director of Green Center, told this scribe. He said that more...
IEEEP highlights Pak potential for wind, solar energy
By Technology Times at March 17, 2012 | 1:09 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The 27th Multi-Topic Symposium organised by Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has recently concluded highlighting the needs for renewable energy in order to overcome the persistent energy crisis in Pakistan. Tahir Saleem, Chairman IEEEP Karachi centre, briefed the audience about the recommendations given in the past based on the more...
