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Khalid Mansoor parts ways with Hubco

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After eight enterprising years with Hubco, Khalid Mansoor, CEO Hub Power Company Limited, has decided to part ways with the company. During his tenure with the company, he led Hubco to enhance its overall generation capacity from 1,600 MW to 3,581 MW. His achievements on behalf of Hubco include capacity building and switching to self O&M of our plants, successful diversification into the coal-based arena through 2×330 MW power plants in Thar (TEL &TN), investment in SECMC and setting up of a 1,320MW CPHGC plant through a joint venture with…

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Pakistan Nuclear Technology Potential

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After the establishment of KANUPP, in 1972 its first nuclear power plant in Karachi produced 137mw of energy – the use of nuclear power in Pakistan has seen a sharp escalation in recent times. Pakistan presently being an energy-hungry economy with outstanding industrial growth potential continues to invest in renewable nuclear power technology. Pakistan embraced a National Energy Security Plan, in 2005 which called for the installation of over 8800mw of nuclear power capacity in Pakistan by 2030. For the attainment of this objective, Pakistan has recently built the K-2…

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Is Pakistan preparing for a decarbonised world?

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ALTHOUGH the world’s attention is currently focused on the Covid-19 pandemic, climate crisis remains the planet’s greatest challenge. To strive to limit the global temperature to 1.5°C means halving the CO2 emissions by 2030 and reaching net zero by 2050. But these pledges have clearly fallen short. In fact, it took a pandemic and the resulting economic shutdown to bring global CO2 emission down by 4-8 per cent. The only way out of the conundrum is to decarbonise and to do it quickly. For Pakistan “the time to resist international…

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Pakistan: Climate Change, Environmental Problems And Pollution, A Rising Uncertainty

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Reports claim that environmental dilapidation can cause a loss of PKR 365 billion every year and hence, it can even deteriorate the economy! Climate change primarily is global warming caused by emission of greenhouse gases via human activity and is responsible for the large-scale alterations in the weather pattern. Human activity burns fossil fuels to produce energy which releases carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This greenhouse gas traps heat energy from the sun causing a greenhouse effect. Climatic scientists highlight that Pakistan is particularly susceptible to climate change impacts because…

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Rs108b savings expected from power shift to solar

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The Punjab government has decided to shift government offices, schools, colleges, universities and health units across Punjab to solar power under the Green Energy Programme through which Rs108 billion will be saved annually. A comprehensive plan has been formulated to increase the use of solar energy in the light of the directives issued by Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar. In the first phase of the programme, government offices and educational institutions in Lahore, Faisalabad, Multan and Sahiwal will be shifted to solar power while in the second phase, government offices…

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