Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

 is currently building solar power

Solar power

Solar energy, radiant light and heat from the sun, has been harnessed by humans since ancient times using a range of ever-evolving technologies. Solar radiation, along with secondary solar-powered resources such as wind and wave power, hydroelectricity and biomass, account for most of the available...

 plants in Pakistani Kashmir, Punjab

Punjab (Pakistan)

Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 45% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the...

, Sindh and Balochistan. The program is currently underdeveloped by the International Renewable Energy Agency

International Renewable Energy Agency

The International Renewable Energy Agency was founded in 2009 to promote widespread and increased adoption and sustainable use of all forms of renewable energy. IRENA facilitates access to all relevant renewable energy information, including technical data...

, China

China

Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

, and Pakistani private sector energy companies.

Installed capacity

Raja Pervaiz Ashraf

Raja Pervaiz Ashraf

Raja Pervez Ashraf was the Federal Minister for Water and Power of Pakistan in the Yousaf Raza Gillani-led cabinet...

, the Minister of Water and Power has announced on July 2, 2009 that 7,000 villages will be electrified using solar energy in the next five years.

Government Policy

Chief Minister’s senior advisor Sardar Zulfiqar Khosa has also stated that the Punjab government will begin new projects aimed at power production through coal, solar energy and wind power; this would generate additional resources.

The Government of Pakistan has allowed the provincial government of sindh to conduct research on the solar power. Government is planning to install a water filtration plant to make the seawater sweet through solar energy, said Sindh Minister for Environment and Alternative Energy, Askari Taqvi.

Annual insolation

Pakistan has also set a target to add 5% approximately 10,000 MW electricity through renewable energies by year 2030 besides replacement of 5% diesel with bio-diesel by year 2015 and 10% by 2025.

External links

*http://www.gracesolarpk.com

• http://www.solarsystemspk.com
• http://pakistansolarpower.com/
• Solar Systems Pakistan
• http://pakobserver.net/200907/02/news/business03.asp
• http://www.paksolarpower.net/index.html
• http://www.ghar.com.pk/directory/index.php?page=browse&category=28