from Daily Times - KARACHI: The financial close of four 50 megawatts wind power projects will be achieved by end of this year to add 200 megawatts to the national grid in 2011.
The CEO of Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB) Arif Alauddin stated this while speaking at the inaugural session of international conference on alternative energy organised by E-commerce Gateway at Expo Centre on Saturday.
He said 20 new masts are being installed to obtain bankable wind data in Sindh, Punjab, NWFP and Balochistan. Similarly, AEDB is also setting up a 50 megawatt wind farm in public sector, for which PC-1 has been prepared, financing has been identified and the projects awaits the approval of Planning Commission, he added.
He pointed out that major wind manufacturing companies including Nordix, GE, Sunnec and CWE have signed MoUs for setting up farm and manufacturing some local components in Pakistan.
The first farm, containing 15 percent locally manufactured parts, is expected by the end of this year, he noted.
Alauddin said AEDB is working to install 103 micro hydropower projects in Chitral and Baltistan, of which 60 have been completed while 43 will be completed in the coming days.
British Deputy High Commissioner Robert Gibson said the United Kingdom has planned to produce 15 percent of the total electricity from alternative energy by 2020. He said the UK has become the centre for alternative energy whereas $23 billion have been raised for alternative energy projects in the UK in the last ten years.
Sindh Minister for Information Technology, Raza Haroon highlighted the importance of alternative energy keeping in view the on-going energy crisis in the country. app
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