Thursday 26 April 2012

Agriculture Forum opinion: Punjab has capacity to produce cheap electricity

Agri Forum Pakistan Chairman Ibrahim Mughal urged the Punjab government to take serious steps for ending the electricity load shedding and claimed appropriate and timely steps under 18th amendment can help the province produce cheaper electricity at its own.
In his opinion Punjab has the capacity to produce 2000 mega watt of electricity through water, 1000MW from coal and other sources and also generate power through wind within one and half year.

He said appropriate planning can help the province of Punjab to generate abundant and cheaper electricity at the rate of Rs 5 to 6 per unit.
Mughal expressed these views while addressing a seminar on 'energy', said a spokesman of the Forum on Wednesday.

He said that all the provinces should use their own resources to generate power and other requirements after the passage of 18th amendment.

He claimed that Punjab needs 10,000MW of power per annum but it is getting 6,000MW of power due to load shedding.
He said that Punjab take appropriate steps to use water, wind, coal and other resources to produce around 4,500MW of electricity in next two years to meet 100 per cent provincial requirements.

He said that Punjab could avoid load shedding by generating power through its own resources and electricity it is getting from federation.

Mughal stated that Punjab could produce energy required for domestic use or agricultural and industrial consumers under a comprehensive planning while 700MW of electricity could also be taken from sugar mills situated in Punjab, generating abundant power for the province, he concluded.

1 comment:

  1. Everyone agrees we need Energy badly and have ideas to produce it as well. Then why we are suffering from Load Shedding for past 5 years? I can't Understand?

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