Dubai-based firm has offered solar-powered street lights for city

[Hyde]

‘Dubai-based firm has offered solar-powered street lights for city’​

KARACHI: A Dubai-based company has offered free installation of solar-powered street lights in the city, Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s MPA Askari Taqi told the Sindh Assembly on Wednesday while participating in the general discussion on budget 2010-11 that continued on the third consecutive day. He advised that the provincial government should also work on utilisation of solar energy as an alternate power source along with developing coal, adding that the investment cost of solar energy was reduced globally, and it would be cheaper than coal by 2015. He said since solar energy is carbon free, and the government could get the technology from USA, and the World Bank could also provide financial assistance in this regard. Emphasising the need for utilising seawater for power generation as well, he supported the government’s steps for the development of the Thar coal project, however, he asked to obtain guarantees from the companies that their power plants would not emit carbon. He also expressed his concern over the provincial government’s action and notice against those investors who have yet not utilised the land for wind power plants. He also demanded the government to impose agricultural income tax, saying that small growers could be exempted initially, but it must be recovered. The MPAs belonging to the PPP however strongly opposed the demand, and said it would further destroy growers economically.

 

[RescueRanger]

‘Dubai-based firm has offered solar-powered street lights for city’​

KARACHI: A Dubai-based company has offered free installation of solar-powered street lights in the city, Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s MPA Askari Taqi told the Sindh Assembly on Wednesday while participating in the general discussion on budget 2010-11 that continued on the third consecutive day. He advised that the provincial government should also work on utilisation of solar energy as an alternate power source along with developing coal, adding that the investment cost of solar energy was reduced globally, and it would be cheaper than coal by 2015. He said since solar energy is carbon free, and the government could get the technology from USA, and the World Bank could also provide financial assistance in this regard. Emphasising the need for utilising seawater for power generation as well, he supported the government’s steps for the development of the Thar coal project, however, he asked to obtain guarantees from the companies that their power plants would not emit carbon. He also expressed his concern over the provincial government’s action and notice against those investors who have yet not utilised the land for wind power plants. He also demanded the government to impose agricultural income tax, saying that small growers could be exempted initially, but it must be recovered. The MPAs belonging to the PPP however strongly opposed the demand, and said it would further destroy growers economically.

This is excellent, simply great. The Solar powered SOS phones on the motorway have been a huge success and the implementation of such lighting could conserve a considerable ammount of energy.

 

[Hyde]

excatly, i am in great favour of solar-powered Street Lights. They are not as expensive as comparing to generating electricity from Solar energy and not relying upon the electricity from our national grids.

Gwadar is already using street lights powered by Solar electricity and i would love to see this trend being follower by big cities like Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad and Islamabad

Solar Electricity is far too expensive but its worth an investment when being utilized independently i.e. Street Lights, solar power heaters, geezers and other equipments

 

[Donatello]

As an electrical engineer, i would stress that in our electricity starved nation, hundreds of MW of power is used up by street lights. So during the loadshedding they turn them off, but at the cost of increased danger on the roads due to darkness. If we could install Solar lights, they would be expensive in the short term but actually cheaper in the long run as it would free up huge amounts of power to be distributed to homes and factories where its needed most while the roads would be lit up.