Month: June 2020

ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Tuesday directed the power sector entities to immediately include hydroelectric power in the definition and policy of the Alternate and Renewable Energy (ARE) sources. The decision comes at a time when the Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCoE), led by Planning Minister Asad Umar directed the Power Division to resolve immediately all outstanding issues with the Sindh government on Alternate & Renewable Energy Policy (AREP). The AREP, 2019 was approved, in principle, by the Council of Common Interests (CCI) in December last…

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Launched in July 2019, the procurement exercise has seen final bids ranging from TND millimes 125.3922 ($0.0444)/kWh to TND millimes 129.9736/kWh for projects ranging from 1 MW to 10 MW. The tender lot for projects of 1 MW, final bids are between TND millimes 189.500 ($0.0671)/kWh to TND millimes 213.500/kWh The Tunisian Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mines has revealed 16 winning projects from its 70 MW PV tender, which was launched in July 2019. Through this procurement exercise, the Tunisian government aims to build six solar power plants with…

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MANILA, PHILIPPINES (16 June 2020) — Greater investment in clean energy infrastructure will contribute to Asia and the Pacific’s recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and make economies more resilient against future shocks, participants at the Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) 2020 heard today. “It is clear that the COVID-19 crisis has made tackling climate change and other development issues an even bigger challenge,” said Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Masatsugu Asakawa in his opening remarks. “However, the situation offers opportunities and we must now seize the chance to…

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Chairman China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Authority Lt. General (retired) Asim Saleem Bajwa has dismissed the impression that the pace of CPEC related projects have slowed down, saying that the scope has actually enhanced. “Some detractors giving a false impression of CPEC being slowed. Not only pace of work on projects picked up recently, a great deal of groundwork done to launch phase-2,” said Bajwa in a tweet post on Wednesday. “Not only pace of work on projects picked up recently, a great deal of groundwork done to launch phase-2,” he…

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CHINA Pilgrims take selfies last September at Drolma La, the highest point on their 32-mile kora—a circular, meditative walk around Mount Kangrinboqe in Tibet. The mountain is sacred to four religions, and four of South Asia’s rivers rise from near its cardinal points. The source of the Indus River is a four-day walk north of the mountain. Photography for this article was supported in part by the South Asian Journalists Association. From near Mount Kangrinboqe in Tibet rise four major rivers, which stretch east and west across the Himalaya and down…

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