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KARACHI: A Sindh government’s plan to exploit the potential of wind corridors for power generation is seen meeting reality checks after decades it was first explored as the Sindh Transmission and Dispatch Company (STDC) is close to finalise the plan of smart grid technologies of power transmission to get benefit of natural resources, said a senior official. The STDC move came after it was awarded a transmission licence by the National Electric & Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) last year to expand its transmission network catering to Keti-Bandar-Gharo-Jhimpir wind corridor. Hopes…

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KARACHI: As many as 12 wind power projects with a cumulative capacity of 650 megawatts (MW) of electricity in Sindh are likely to commence commercial operations by end of December 2020, said the provincial energy minister here on Friday. Imtiaz Ahmad Shaikh said these projects – each with a producing capacity of 50 MW power are under construction in wind corridor of Jhimpir and Jamshoro – identified as the most lucrative sites for the wind power plants in the country. Around 650 MW of cheaper and environment friendly power would…

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ISLAMABAD: The government has approved a plan of transferring unspent funds and savings from gas supply schemes to provinces, a move that may invite some criticism. Gas schemes are considered an easy tool in far-off areas of the country to win over voters during elections. This comes in the backdrop of gas shortages that have put an extra burden of Rs73 billion due to diversion of expensive imported gas to meet demand from domestic consumers. The current Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government had diverted costly liquefied natural gas (LNG) to domestic…

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ISLAMABAD: While hurling accusations of data fudging on Distribution Companies (Discos), the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has asserted that existing setup is unable to deliver, recommending independence of Discos from Power Division’s control with complete financial controls. The regulator, in its report performance evaluation report of Discos and KE 2018-18 as compared to 2014-15 through 2017-18, has also observed that Discos has inflicted financial loss of Rs215.5 billion to the national during this period by breaching different targets. The Nepra being a regulator has been advising and directing…

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In July 2019, Gregory Dipple, a geologist at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, hopped on a 119-seat charter flight in Yellowknife, Canada, and flew 280 kilometers northeast to the Gahcho Kué diamond mine, just south of the Arctic Circle. Gahcho Kué, which means “place of the big rabbits” in the Dënësu¸łinë language of the region’s native Dené or Chipewyan people, is an expansive open pit mine ringed by sky-blue lakes. There, the mining company De Beers unearths some 4 million carats’ worth of diamonds annually. But Dipple and two…

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