Year: 2021

WAPDA spends Rs100b on development projects

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Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) is spending a hefty amount of over Rs100 billion in project areas for progress and prosperity of the local population. “In addition to stabilising the national economy by developing irrigated agriculture, mitigating devastating floods and injecting low-cost hydel electricity into the national grid, the authority plays a role in socio-economic development of people residing in project areas,” said Wapda in a statement on Monday. The sum of Rs100 billion was being utilised on confidence-building measures (CBM) in project areas of four under-construction projects…

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Power infrastructure development: Chinese company ready to cooperate

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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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Registration of TB workers in coal mines in Shangla

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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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Can The U.S. Compete With Qatari LNG?

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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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Solar Power’s Decade of Falling Costs Is Thrown Into Reverse

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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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