Pakistan aims to achieve 60 pc renewable energy mix by 2030 – EQ Mag Pro
Punjab Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Public Health Engineering Mian Mahmood-ur-Rasheed has announced government’s plan to convert 60 per cent of power consumption to solar energy by 2030.
The minister was addressing the audience at a “Sungrow Power Day 2021 – Lahore Chapter, a grand event” organized by Sungrow, the global leading inverter solution supplier for renewables at a local hotel. Environment Protection Agency, Punjab, Director General (DG EPA) Ambreen Sajjad and Public-Private Partnership (PPP), Punjab, Chief Executive Amjad Ali Awan were guests of honor, while leading national and international companies’ experts and high officials also participated in the event.
The minister said that Punjab government had already initiated a robust plan with funds amounting to billions of rupees to convert universities, schools in remote districts of Punjab, all educational institutions and industrial units to renewable/solar energy in the province. “Another very encouraging trend in being witnessed where people are converting mosques in urban areas on solar energy on self-help basis,” he said, adding that a mosque, whose monthly electricity bill had exceeded Rs 500,000/month, had come down to zero besides earning additional income through sale of power to distribution companies through net-metering.
Source : PTI
