Category: News & Announcement

Originally published on the website of the U.S. Energy Information Administration.Principal contributors: Chris Namovicz, Richard Bowers Earlier this year, the Southwest Power Pool (SPP), the regional transmission organization that manages the electric grid for much of the central United States, set records for the highest share of electricity demand supplied by wind power in both a single-hour period (72%) and a full day (62%). In 2019, wind power provided 29% of the electricity demand in SPP. On a monthly basis, wind power’s share of total demand in 2019 ranged from a high of 37%…

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The global energy industry downturn at the hands of Covid-19 has not only hurt immediate revenues, but is also affecting national infrastructure and energy policy planning. A Rystad Energy analysis shows that gas resources around the world will see development delays, with the construction of planned regasification facilities also at risk. Coal may benefit as a result. The case of Vietnam is a good example of how a country with its own rich gas resources will fail to meet domestic production expectations, requiring an increase in liquefied natural gas (LNG)…

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No New Uplift Schemes for Karachi Get Little Attention in Sindh’s Budget for 2020-21

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With the graph of COVID-19 continuing to rise at a fast pace, the state of uncertainty prevailing due to partial lock down and related future of daily wagers, the situation has never gone so unpredictable as is now in Pakistan. In these hard times, the project Management of China Electric Power Equipment & Technology Co., Ltd (CET) decided to support the much needed, poor and underprivileged persons and families of the local community around its two major installations of Balloki and Matiari Converter Stations located in the Province of Punjab…

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Since the past 12 years, the Pakistan Peoples Party-led (PPP) Sindh government seems to be on a mysterious mission to provide a rehabilitation facility to motor vehicle drivers in the province. Since the project has never materialised despite its inclusion in the budget document for many consecutive years, no one knows what kind of ‘rehabilitation’ the provincial government intends to provide to drivers. The proposed project, which has been named ‘Rehabilitation of the Drivers Training School’, is to be completed under a public-private partnership in Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur and Larkana.…

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