A team of the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority’s (OGRA) Enforcement Directorate on Sunday stopped the illegal and dangerous activities of selling LPG in plastic shopping bags, taking place in parts of the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – Peshawar. “OGRA team along with District Management visited different parts of Peshawar including Rati bazaar, Ashraf road and Khyber bazaar after reported selling and filling of LPG/Gas in plastic bags and immediately stopped the activity,” the authority spokesman Imran Ghaznavi said in a news release here. He said the activity of…
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Six Findings from the Periodic Results of the Daqing Base of China’s National Experimental Platform for Photovoltaic and Energy Storage
PVTIME – Recently, China’s National Experimental Platform for Photovoltaic and Energy Storage has announced the half-year empirical results of the Daqing Base, which is located in Datong District, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province (124°E, 46°N), in the cold temperature zone. The MW-level array was established to study the impact of product selection and system design on power generation, and the periodic results already reflect some trending information. 1. The PR of PV arrays with different designs are mostly higher than 83% As shown in Figure 1, the PR of PV arrays of…
Read MorePakistan Unable to Diversify Sources of Energy to Overcome Crisis: Report
Pakistan is making efforts to find a new energy alliance to ensure an uninterrupted energy supply to households and industries, Geo-Politik reported. Pakistan is trying to diversify its energy sources for tackling the energy crisis. A delegation of Pakistani ministers, including the Minister of State (Petroleum Division) Musadik Masood Malik travelled to Kazakhstan from November 8-11. During the visit, Pakistani ministers held a meeting with Kazakh Minister for Energy Akchulakov Bilat Uralovich, as per the Geo-Politik report. The two sides discussed the possibility of connecting Kazakhstan’s existing natural gas pipeline…
Read MoreExperts Identify Causes behind NJHPP Tunnel Collapse
A Panel of Experts (PoEs) in their interim report has identified eight causes of the collapse of 969-MW Neelum Jhelum Hydropower Project (NJHPP) tunnel. This was revealed by the Chief Executive Officer (CEPO), NJHPP, Muhammad Arfan, while briefing Senate Standing Committee on Power headed by Senator Saifullah Abro. The CEO apprised the Committee in detail that it is a government scheme project, which was started in 2008 and completed in 2018. The PC-l was prepared in 1998 and approved in 2002. The length of the underground tunnel is 48 km…
Read MoreECC Approves Sooner Start of Reko Diq Project
The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet has approved sooner beginning of the work on the Reko Diq mining project, ARY News reported on Sunday. Finance Minister Ishaq Dar chaired the ECC session by video link, which approved two agenda items with regard to the Reko Diq gold and copper mining project in Balochistan. Federal Ministry of Finance has said that the ECC approved sooner beginning of work on the Reko Diq project. The Supreme Court in a recent verdict on the gold and copper mining project ruled that…
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