Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Increased solar power use in Pakistan

Pakistani teacher Kashif shows solar geysers on the roof of his seminary in Murree. From mosques, to homes to street lights, Pakistanis are increasingly seeing the light and realising that year-round sun may be a quick and cheap answer to an enormous energy crisis.

 

Pakistan needs to produce 16,000 megawatts of electricity to cater for daily demand, but falls short by providing only 13,000 megawatts, according to the state-owned Pakistan Electric Power Company. More

Pakistan would be very smart if the encouraged investment in Alternative Energy (AE) now for a number of reasons. The most obvious being the shortage of electricity and the second and perhpas more important being the fact that oil prices are going to keep escalating making it more difficult for Pakistani's to afford electricity in the future. Editor.