Day: January 8, 2021

CCOE forms body to streamline gas connections

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ISLAMABAD: The Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCOE) has formed a committee to streamline the process for providing industrial gas connections in Balochistan. The committee will formulate criteria for approving the new connections to eliminate possibility of any discretionary decision. A meeting was held under the chairmanship of Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar in Islamabad on Thursday. The Petroleum Division proposed the setting up of a committee for streamlining the process of industrial gas connections in Balochistan. The cabinet body on energy approved the proposed committee and directed…

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Turkmenistan eyes MoU with Gwadar Port

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Turkmenistan are engaged in efforts to deepen trade relations between the two countries. During a meeting between Ambassador of Turkmenistan to Pakistan Atadjan Movlamov and Adviser to Prime Minister on Commerce Abdul Razak Dawood, both sides discussed the historical bilateral relations. They agreed that the bilateral trade was below its true potential and resolved to increase the volume. In light of Pakistan’s interaction with Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, now Turkmenistan also wants to enhance trade relations with Pakistan. Hence, the Ministry of Commerce is developing a strategy to…

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Can Renewables Become As Profitable As Oil And Gas?

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Here’s the question for oil industry investors. Can oil companies scale up clean energy enterprises to replace business lost from a decline in fossil fuel revenues? Some of the oil companies put up a brave front as they boast of their decarbonization plans. Others ignore the question. But at the end of the day— and this is the takeaway— we don’t think they will replace lost fossil related income by massively investing in windmills and solar power. Here’s why. It’s a simple matter of risk and return. Investors accept lower returns…

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Recycling an airplane: What’s scrapped when an aircraft retires?

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Deciding when and how to retire an aircraft is a complicated job for airlines, even in normal times. With Covid-19, the world’s fleet has been largely grounded. Many aircraft that might have flown for five, 10 or even more years are being sent to have their valuable parts and systems stripped, and their metals and other materials recycled.Finnair is starting to retire its Airbus A319 airplanes — small, two-engined jets that it has spent more than two decades flying around Europe to connect to and through its Helsinki hub. Director of…

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JinkoSolar claims 24.9% efficiency for n-type monocrystalline cell

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The result, which was confirmed by the Institute for Solar Energy Research (ISFH), in Germany, improves on the company’s previous record of 24.79%, achieved in July. “The record-breaking monocrystalline silicon solar cell was fabricated on a high quality, low defect CZ mono-Si substrate,” the company said in a statement. “Advanced diffusion with highly activated dopant, high-quality surface passivation, JinkoSolar highly conductive passivating contact technologies, and a series of innovative technologies and material upgrade[s] were integrated into the cell process,” the module maker said in a statement. In January 2020, when…

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