Solar Homes : Balochistan to spend Rs 888 Millions.

[American Pakistani]

Solar Homes : Balochistan to spend Rs 888 Millions.




QUETTA: The Balochistan government will spend Rs888 million on the Solar Energy Home Project under which around 300 villages will get access to electricity. Sources in the Balochistan Planning and Development department have told APP that nature has endowed the province with immense potential in generating solar, wind and geo-thermal energy. In this regard, the provincial government has already set up the Balochistan Energy Company for promotion of renewable energy in the province. The company has also been registered by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan. With exorbitant increases in the power tariff, the provincial government plans to convert all such tubewells to run on solar-energy at a cost of Rs5 billion.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 7th, 2012.

Solar homes: Balochistan to spend Rs888m – The Express Tribune

 

[MSNGUY]

Is the Electricity Project initiated by Mr Raza

 

[KRAIT]

Great initiative.....there are individual vendors in Rajasthan, India, who sell, maintain solar equipments. Mostly women do this work.

Collaborating with these institutions who train this women, can bring know how to the Balochistan province as they already have business and working model to establish solar powered home at root level.

This should become another sector of Indo-Pak cooperation to develop local industries. Both the countries will benefit from it.