🔊 Listen to ArticleKARACHI: The speakers and experts were unanimous that Pakistan’s energy sector has greatly suffered due to a lack of vision and strategy and because the main focus has always been on reckless capacity addition at an exuberant cost. He said that National Energy Testing Laboratory is being set up with a cost of $10 million. He said that based on existing energy mix, Pakistan’s dependence on fossil fuels is 63% out of which 55% is on imported fuel which is a serious threat to our energy security. Asif Jehanzeb, Assistant Director, Directorate of Alternative Energy, Sindh Energy Department, said that renewable energy projects are being implemented under the framework of “Policy for Development of Renewable Energy for Power Generation, 2006”. For fulfilling the land requirements of power generation projects, the GoS has an exclusive policy for land allotment called “Statement of Conditions for Grant of State Land on Lease, 2015”.

Source: Pakistan Today June 22, 2019 13:03 UTC