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The need to switch towards a greener future: Lessons from China

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wind-energy

Today I attended a conference at Serena Islamabad “The need to switch towards a greener future: Lessons from China” arranged jointly by SDPI and PCI. I truly appreciate both organizations for their valuable efforts in organizing this event and addressing a key policy issue which needs to be addressed immediately.The speakers did their best to highlight pertinent points related to RE industry in Pakistan.However, as pioneer of the wind industry in the country, I was wondering how much more we should learn from our mistakes and how much more efforts…

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Mini Budget 2023

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mini-budget

Pakistan is set to announce a mini budget to generate about Rs200 billion additional revenue to meet IMF Conditionalities. The mini budget will be placed before and approved by parliament ahead of IMF final talks on 16.02.2023.The government is taking harsh taxation measures on the demand of the IMF to general more revenue for lower the fiscal deficit.Sources in FBR on 14.02.2023, said that the changes many be applicable from 15.02.2023, after cabinet approval. They said that through the new amendments the government had aimed to generate another Rs.200 billion.The…

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Europe’s Energy Crisis Leaves Almost All Of Pakistan Without Power

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Pakistan faced an almost nationwide power outage on Monday. A significant energy shortage is one of the main drivers of the nation’s current economic crisis…………..The long-awaited winter energy crisis has finally hit…but it wasn’t in Europe after all. On Monday, almost the entirety of Pakistan was left without power when a misguided energy saving strategy by the government backfired. Runaway inflation, a severely weakened currency, and rapidly emptying foreign exchange reserves have left Pakistan on the brink of economic collapse. The country of 230 million people is plagued by overdue…

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For brain storming I am of the view that if in winter total NTDC load is 9000 MW if aardvark group of 1200 MW tripped due to any fault then expected drop in frequency

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electric

.For brain storming I am of the view that if in winter total NTDC load is 9000 MW if aardvark group of 1200 MW tripped due to any fault then expected drop in frequency will be around 6% .let say if Kanuup 2400 MW tripped the drop in frequency in winter will be around 13% and in summer it will be 7%.The 7% drop in frequency can tripped the whole fragile grid system.I was opposing the insatllation of large generating station like kanupp 2 with out proper study of primary…

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