Heat pumps are becoming all the rage around a world that has to slash carbon emissions rapidly while cutting energy costs. In buildings, they replace space heating and water heating – and provide cooling as a bonus. A heat pump extracts heat from outside, concentrates it (using an electric compressor) to raise the temperature, and pumps the heat to where…
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Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has given the deadline of a couple of weeks for mapping 6000-MW solar projects across the country and proposed tariff along with indexation to attract international investment. These directions were issued at a meeting on September 5, 2022, presided over by Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Effective Governance, Dr. Jehanzeb Khan, a close relative of…
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Äager is an innovative environmental process, emission & air pollution controlequipment manufacturing and engineering company, participating at ADIPEC2022 between October 31 to November 3 in the 13th hall, at the GermanPavilion.Hosted by the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), ADIPEC is the world’smost influential gathering for energy industry professionals. This year ADIPECwill accelerate the energy transition and unlock real value…
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Petroleum dealers on Saturday warned the government of a countrywide strike if the latter tried to railroad the proposed oil sector deregulation plan without bringing them and other stakeholders on board, The News has learnt. “We will reject the decision, if taken behind our back,” said Abdul Sami Khan, Chairman Pakistan Petroleum Dealers Association (PPDA), at a ceremony. “It is…
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Pakistan can’t win for losing. The South Asian country of over 230 million people was already hit by a perfect storm of economic and political difficulties this year; it has now been devastated by the most severe and catastrophic flooding in recent memory. Over 1,400 people and 800,000 livestock have died, about 1 million homes have been destroyed, and more…
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Climate change is playing havoc with the economic and social fabric of the country. The numbers are grim and point towards the enormity of the challenge ahead. The recent floods have inundated more than 250,000 km2 of land. Agriculture crops have been destroyed over an area of one million acres. Millions of animals are facing acute shortage of fodder, which…
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It is interesting to note that in the 1970s and 80s, and even today, power and gas were often provided in sub-urban or rural localities to gain political mileage. I remember watching TV clips of the same. Somehow a basic right is shown as a favour. Contrastingly, today the public acknowledges power as their basic right but pays the bills…
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Continuous ban on the provision of new gas connections is not only irking the consumers but also increasing the backlog of the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL). The situation may worsen as there is no hope of lifting the ban by the government keeping in view the depleting indigenous gas reserves, increasing dependency on the import of Liquefied Natural…
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Financial advisers of the National Power Parks Management Company Limited (NPPMCL) — which owns and operates two LNG-fired plants with a combined capacity of around 2,500 megawatts — have asked the government to immediately finalise gas-sale and power-purchase agreements, debt recapitalisation and payment mechanism if it wanted an early sale of the two units to Qatar. The government is trying…
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