Pakistan’s first clean coal power plant likely by November 2010

BY ALI KHIZAR ASLAM AND AYESHA NADEEM RAHMAN

Pakistan will have its first clean coal power generation facility by the end of next year, said Hillard Herzog, the CEO of a US-based energy firm Bergamo E&A in an interview with BR Research of Business Recorder. “Ours is a 544 megawatt clean coal energy project [...]

Nuclear energy a long-term alternative to Pakistan’s power crisis

By Chaudhry Kamran Naseer

The provision of energy is considered as one of the basic elements for both economic growth and a higher standard of living. Pakistan is currently facing a big crisis in the energy sector. And due to the gap between demand and supply of energy, many fields of the economy [...]

Wapda worker designs fuel-free power generation system

By Adeel Pathan

HYDERABAD: A government employee claimed to have designed the first fuel-free power generation system here on Saturday.

Talking to newsmen at the Hyderabad Press Club, Syed Anwar Ali, a Wapda stenographer, said Rs 3 to 4 billion, a 5-km area and 40 to 50 people were required [...]

Will the Ferrari of tomorrow be fungus-powered?

A reddish microbe found on the inside of a tree at a secret location in the rainforests of northern Patagonia could unlock the bio fuel of the future, say scientists. Its potential is so startling that the discoverers have coined the term ‘myco-diesel’ – a derivation of the word for fungus [...]

LAHORE: Free solar energy for village offered

Associated Press of Pakistan Jawaid Tariq Khan, a senior banker and Chairman Highnoon Group of Companies, has offered to electrify a village with solar energy. [...]

Pakistan terribly needs integrated energy model

LAHORE – Pakistan has to adopt suitable financing mechanism for energy efficiency improvement projects besides remodelling country’s overall energy demand and supply situation. An in-depth assessment of energy efficiency market and economy of Asian Development Bank (ADB) to be completed by next month, pointed out that the country terribly needed [...]

Why not manufacture wind turbines in Pakistan?

AIR CDR (RETD) AZFAR A. KHAN

The new government in Pakistan is in place after the February 18, 2008 general elections. It is confronted with major challenges out of which power shortage is the most demanding. Due to energy shortage, the public has been warned that it should tighten its belts and get mentally prepared [...]