Day: May 24, 2021

China Southern Power Grid Yunnan International is willing to cooperate in power grid and power infrastructure development in Pakistan in wake of investment opportunities offered under China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) framework, said Chief Engineer, Zhang Yunhu. There are good examples for the cooperation in power sector mostly in power plants under CPEC flagship project. “For us, if we have opportunity to participate in the cooperation in power grid and power infrastructure development in Pakistan, we will be very pleased and we will do our best to cooperate if there is…

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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Labour and culture Shaukat Yousafzai has said that process of diagnosis, registration and determination of the total number of TB workers in coal mines in Shangla district, in collaboration with the Health Department and Dopasi, has started. The event was formally inaugurated at the residence of Dr. Sharifullah Saqib. Insaf Doctors’ Forum Vice President of PTI Malakand Division Haji Sadid-ur-Rehman, President of Shangla District Waqar Ahmad, District General Secretary Haji Abdul Moli, District Secretary Information Islam Zada, Hayat Khan, Syed Alam, Asif Ali, Zafar Ali, Pir…

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Qatar’s recent announcement that it would build the world’s largest LNG production facility did not prompt any applause from other LNG producers. Now, the tiny Gulf nation is also cutting its prices and expanding into the spot market to retain its number-one position in LNG exports. This could result in the death of some planned U.S. LNG projects. U.S. liquefied natural gas quickly became a threat for the world’s top exporter. While Qatar is still the cheapest LNG producer, the abundance of shale gas made it cheap and competitive in…

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A key selling point that made solar energy the fastest-growing power source in the world—rapidly decreasing costs—has hit a speed bump. Solar module prices have risen 18% since the start of the year after falling by 90% over the previous decade. The reversal, fueled by a quadrupling in the cost of the key raw material polysilicon, threatens to delay projects and slow uptake of solar power just as several major governments are finally throwing their weight behind it in an effort to slow climate change. “The disruption to solar hasn’t…

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The Power Division has claimed to have saved consumers from a burden of around Rs170 billion due to removal of the ‘fairness and equity’ clause from an arbitration deal between K-Electric and state-run power utilities. Sources told The Express Tribune that the issue of arbitration deal between K-Electric and state-run entities – National Transmission & Despatch Company (NTDC) and Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) – was taken up in a meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) on Friday. The ECC, chaired by Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin, decided not to…

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