Month: May 2023

Electricity generation capacity to Tarbela to jump to 6, 418 MW in 2025

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Terbala-Dam

ISLAMABAD, May 29 (APP): The total electricity generation capacity of Tarbela Power House will jump to 6,418 megawatts (MW) from the existing 4,888 MW after the commissioning of the Tarbela 5th Extension Project scheduled to be completed in 2025. Official sources told APP here that the cumulative generation capacity of the project stood at 1530 MW with three generating units of 510 MW each. On completion, the project would provide 1.347 billion units of environment-friendly and low-cost hydel electricity to the National Grid on average every year. WAPDA is constructing…

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LONGi, SGS (Shanghai), SGS (Qingdao) and Intertek join hands to build a healthy business environment for Pakistan’s PV market

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Longi

On May 25th, LONGi, SGS (Shanghai), SGS (Qingdao) and Intertek held a cooperation signing ceremony during the Shanghai SENC exhibition. Ali Majid, Director of LONGi Pakistan Region；Zhou Quan, Manager of SGS Renewable Energy Product Line in China; Yang Yingyong, Manager of New Energy Photovoltaic Department of SGS Industrial Department; Qu Feifei, New Energy Photovoltaic Technology Manager of SGS Industrial Department; and Li Yifeng, Sales Director of Northeast China of Intertek Electronic and Electrical Business Department attended the event attended and signed the agreement LONGi’s high-quality and reliable panels have always…

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Commercial utilisation of SSGC LPG: Govt urged to allow access to parties interested in building storages

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SSGC

Commercial utilisation of SSGC LPG: Govt urged to allow access to parties interested in building storagesIslamabad: The LPG Industries Association of Pakistan has asked the federal government to allow third-party access for commercial utilisation of SSGC LPG (Pvt) Limited at Port Qasim to those parties interested in building LPG storages in Pakistan.In a letter, the association argued that Pakistan lacked LPG storage. The purpose of allowing third party was to increase Pakistan’s LPG reserve stock from two days to 30 days.The association acknowledges the government had helped LPG industry in…

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Gharo cluster transmission: WPPs for removing constraints

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ISLAMABAD: Three Wind Power Projects (WPPs) have urged the government to remove constraints on the Gharo Cluster transmission line network system on war footing basis. The three WPPs, Hydrochina Dawood Power (Pvt) Limited, Zephyr Power Limited and Tenaga Generasi Limited, in a joint letter to Registrar National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra), stated that they are sharing certain matters of concern that are hindering the smooth operations of wind power generation facilities set up by the Companies in Gharo, Sindh. According to these companies they had written a letter to…

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Imports of petroleum group contract by 17.96pc in 10 months  

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petroleum-group

ISLAMABAD – The imports of the overall petroleum group contracted by 17.96 percent during the first ten months of the current fiscal year (2022-23) as compared to the corresponding period of the last year, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported. The total imports of the petroleum group during July-April (2022-23) stood at $13,974.610 million, as against the imports of $17,033.574 million during the same period of last year, according to PBS data. Among petroleum commodities, the import of petroleum products declined by 28.07 percent, from $8,549.224 million last year…

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