India witnessed a new record-low solar power tariff in one of the recently concluded national level tenders. The new tariff bid is 3% lower than the previous record-low bid which was first discovered in 2017 and then twice in 2018. The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) bid out 2 gigawatts of solar power capacity late last month in an auction dominated…
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Solar-power farms could increase average yield 35% to 40% simply by mounting double-sided photovoltaic (PV) panels on trackers to follow the sun, a multinational research team reports. The team—led by Carlos D. Rodríguez-Gallegos, a research fellow at the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, which is part of the National University of Singapore—analyzed, on a global basis, two types of…
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Islamabad (6th July, 2020) In view of media reporting based on incomplete information regarding payment of land rent by Oil & Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) to the landowners at Uch Gas Field, it is necessary to place a record the factual position to avoid unnecessary speculation, hype and ambiguity. The actual facts and circumstances are as follow.OGDCL’s Uch Gas…
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For centuries, wind was the force that moved cargo around the globe, until it was replaced by steam and then diesel during the industrial age. As the shipping industry comes under ever greater scrutiny for its emissions and pollution, there could still be a future for sail-power to transport cargo. REINTRODUCING WIND POWER TO LARGE CONTAINER SHIPS There are several…
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BERLIN: German lawmakers have finalised the country’s long-awaited phase-out of coal as an energy source, backing a plan that environmental groups say isn’t ambitious enough and free marketeers criticise as a waste of taxpayers’ money. Bills approved by both houses of parliament on Friday envision shutting down the last coal-fired power plant by 2038 and spending some 40 billion euros…
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ISLAMABAD: An accountability court of Islamabad has declared Shahidul Islam, former managing director of the Pakistan State Oil (PSO), a proclaimed offender in a case pertaining to the LNG scam that also involved former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. The accountability judge ordered the authorities concerned to block his national identity card. The decision to start the proceedings of proclamation…
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It’s the beginning of the end for the era of mega-dam building in China. China Three Gorges Corp. last week turned on the first set of generators at the massive Wrongdoer hydro power plant, deep in the mountains of Yunnan province. About 170 kilometers (106 miles) downstream on the Jinsha River sits Tibetan, the last of its kind, scheduled to go…
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The Pakistan Meteorological Department has forecast rain showers in Karachi from Monday till Wednesday. A dust storm or heavy winds are likely to blow at a speed of 40km/hr to 50km/hr across the city before the rain. The Met Office has advised people to remain at home since the city might witness rain with thunderstorm, followed by urban flooding. The…
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Experts have agreed that district-based generation of electricity from renewable energy sources offers more benefits to Pakistan compared to the centralised generation system of large-scale power plants scattered across the country. At a webinar titled “Energy Investments and Planning” on Friday, they were of the unanimous view that small solar and wind power plants should be installed where the potential…
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NEW DELHI: Pakistan has moved two divisions of troops along the LoC in occupied Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan and Chinese officials are holding talks with cadres of terrorist outfit Al Badr to incite violence in J&K, as per intelligence inputs, indicating clearer signs of a China-Pak collaboration on the border.
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