Category: Highlights

Nearly two years after Turkey halted offshore gas explorations in contested waters in the eastern Mediterranean, a Turkish drillship has departed from the port of Mersin to search for gas in the region. The Abdullhamid Han drillship set sail on Tuesday with the blessing of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who said that the ship would operate 55km (34.2 miles) off Turkey’s coast in an area within the country’s sovereign territory. The survey and drilling work we are conducting in the Mediterranean are within our sovereign territory. We do not need…

Read More

GoodWe was listed as one of the top 3 hybrid inverter suppliers globally in 2021, taking around 13% global market share according to data released by Wood Mackenzie, the world’s leading authority on energy research. Since its establishment in 2010, GoodWe has been continuously focusing on PV inverters and energy storage solutions and has gained a competitive foothold in the industry. Despite the pandemic and the subsequent supply chain disruptions and surging raw material prices in recent years, GoodWe has continued to invest in R&D (approx. 8% sales revenue) and…

Read More

The international energy demand/supply imbalance has resulted in a steep rise in the cost of energy inputs. Pakistan cannot control the international geopolitics behind the crisis, but taking emergency countermeasures to fix our energy situation is certainly possible. In this article, I will argue why we need to launch a major programme of solar roof-tops to handle the current crisis and for the long-term sustainability of the power sector. I propose that Pakistan adds six gigawatts (GW) of new roof-top solar plant capacity within the next three years by putting…

Read More

August 7 (ANI): Amid the severe energy crisis,Pakistan sought a six-year Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) supply contractfrom international trading companies, by issuing a two-part tender seeking bid prices. Pakistan is heading towards a severe energy crisis in the coming monthswithout the proper LNG supply required to generate electricity, fuelindustries, and household consumption.Last month, the 5-year LNG term agreement with GUNVOR with PakistanLNG Limited (/topic/pakistan-lng-limited) (PLL) expired. Now thecountry’s fully-owned company released the tender for a termagreement for six years. The News International reported that bids are invited from internationalLNG suppliers…

Read More

Asia now hosts about one-fourth of the world’s operational nuclear power units. As of June 2021, six Asian markets and regions (Japan, South Korea, mainland China, Taiwan, India, and Pakistan) were running 113 reactors producing 97.4 GW of energy. Over half of these reactors were built before 2011. According to the World Nuclear Association, around two-thirds of reactors currently under construction are based in Asia. As energy prices rise and energy security concerns threaten the balance of power in the region, Asian economies are building new nuclear power plants and…

Read More