One of the world’s largest solar park to go live in Pakistan by year-end
LAHORE: The government in Pakistan’s Punjab province has said the power project at the Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park, considered as one of the world’s largest solar project, is expected to be fully commissioned by end of the current calendar year.
Sher Ali Khan, the minister for mines and minerals in Punjab, said the provincial government is trying its best to fulfill energy needs of the country.
“We have launched the world largest solar power project of 1,000 MW in Quaid-e-Azam Solar Bahawalpur and hopefully it will be commissioned by the end of this year,” Khan said at an international conference on “Energy for Environmental and Economic Sustainability, organised by the Management and Technology in collaboration with Texas Tech University, National Science Foundation of USA and International Association for Hydrogen Energy, USA.
“Out of that project the first 100MW facilities were already commissioned in May, last year,” Khan said.
He said all developing countries are suffering of the power crisis and Pakistan is no exception to this situation.
The speakers at the conference noted that dire need for energy is being felt globally all due to emerging technology, industrialisation of developing countries, social development and population growth.
Both developed and developing countries are now in search of alternative sources of energy. “By 2030, the world will need to produce more than 21 per cent energy,” said Hasan Sohaib Murad, Rector of University of Management and Technology, Lahore.
“All energy resources could stop functioning but the sun as never-ending and great source of energy would always be there to cater human beings’ needs.”
Murad emphasised on adopting maximum sources of energies like hydro, thermal and nuclear power plants was not sufficient rather many other sources such as solar, wind and ocean energy need to be considered. — Internews