Month: April 2022

Lucky Cement, the largest cement producer in Pakistan, is launching a solar-plus-storage project with 5.589MWh of energy storage, which it claimed would be the largest in the country. The stock-listed company is partnering with local renewable energy firm Reon Energy to build the 34MW solar PV project with storage at its Pezu plant, located in the northern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The storage will improve the reliability of the power supply to the plant by smoothing out the intermittency of the solar PV plant and allow for a rapid response…

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While ringing bells on shortage of fuel stocks, National Power Control Centre (NPCC) has cautioned the government that operations of power plants will cease if immediate measures are not taken to make required fuel available. According to NPCC, as per merit order issued on April 1, 2022, power plants operation on alternate fuel, i.e., HSD, in case primary fuel is not available, becomes economical than certain RFO-operated power plants. Furthermore, generating units of Muzaffargarh (unit- 1, 2,3,5 & 6 at serial 98,99,88, 104& 108 of merit order, respectively) and Jamshoro…

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Meezan Bank has recently signed an agreement with Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL), to enable digitalisation of consumer bill collection via the bank’s state-of-the-art Transaction Banking Solution (eBiz+). The agreement was signed by Irfan Siddiqui Founding President & CEO, Meezan Bank and Ali J Hamdani Managing Director & CEO, SNGPL in the presence of other key management members including Ariful Islam Deputy CEO, Abdullah Ahmed Group Head Corporate & Institutional Banking, M Saqib Ashraf Head Transaction Banking and M Munir Head Payments & Cash Management from Meezan Bank, and…

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Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) has launched a tree plantation campaign at its regional offices and model study centres in all provinces of the country, Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. According to Dr. Malik Tauqeer Ahmad Khan, Director Regional Services (DRS), regional directors have been directed to engage students, teachers and social activists in this plantation drive. Vice Chancellor, AIOU, Prof. Dr. Zia Ul-Qayyum directed the DRS to launch a nationwide tree plantation campaign and plant trees in the Regional Offices and Model Study Centers. Dr. Zia said that…

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Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (Paec) engineers and technicians have completed the Re-Fueling Outage (RFO) of the nuclear power plant C-3 at Chashma in a record minimum time of 26 days. The RFO of the Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) is a routine requirement for replacement of fuel and maintenance every 14 to 18 months, which is normally completed in 60 to 79 days. But this is the first time in the history of Pakistan nuclear industry that Pakistani engineers and technicians completed the RFO within the shortest-possible time. All six nuclear…

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