Pakistan building 500 MW Wind Energy Farms

[Omar1984]

Pakistan building 500 MW Wind Energy Farms​

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervez Ashraf has asked Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB) to immediately process the proposals of Employees Old age Benefit Institute (EOBI) for setting up of 200 to 500 MW Wind Energy project in the country.

He said that while presiding over the Inter-ministerial meeting for setting up of wind energy project with local manufacturing. The meeting also attended by Federal Labour Minister, Syed Khursheed Shah, Minister of State for Defence Production, Sardar Salim Haider, Chairman, Heavy Industries Board, Taxila (HIT), Chairman EOBI, CEO, AEDB and other senior officials of the AEDB and HIT.

Raja Pervez Ashraf appreciated the EOBI for their keen to invest in the power sector by establishing Wind Power Project. He said that Pakistan has great wind energy potential. The wind energy is environment friendly power generation and the world is also trying to develop wind farms to generate cheapest energy for its consumers.

He said that the government of Pakistan is also encouraging investment in the alternative energy projects and number of LOIs have been issued to the potential investors. He said that the change in the energy mix is our policy and alternative energy and hydel projects are our priorities. The Minister also assured that after completing the required procedure, the AEDB will immediately issue LOI for the wind power project of EOBI.

The Labour Minister, Syed Khursheed Shah said that the Ministry is keen to invest the EOBI funds in the best national interest and the proposal to set up Wind Energy Farm will help to meet our future energy requirements. He said that the EOBI will set up wind power project of 200 to 500 MW with the collaboration of local manufacturing. He said that it is our desire that the wind project should be completed within shortest possible time frame of one year.

The Minister of state for Defence Production, Sardar Salim Haider informed the meeting that Heavy Industries Taxila have the ability to develop some kind of wind energy machinery parts. He assured the meeting that the HIT will fully cooperate in the mage project and utilize all of its expertise.

The meeting decided to early process two feasibilities one for 200 MW and other for 500 MW wind projects. The report of the AEDB and HIT will be submitted in the next inter-ministerial meeting to be held next week.

Earlier, the Chairman EOBI briefed the meeting on their investment plan of wind energy projects and the Chairman HIT on the expertise of manufacturing of parts of wind turbines. Pakistan plans 200 to 500 MW Wind Energy Project. ‘Pakistan Times’ Business & Commerce Desk

 

[Hyde]

This is only a news for now
I will believe when the proposals are accepted and/or the construction work gets started

 

[Omar1984]

Chinese company Datang to build 500 MW of wind energy in Pakistan
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The wind turbines would be set up along the coastal areas of Karachi and Sindh at a cost of $1 billion and would be completed in a short span of time.


Two top entities dealing in renewable energy have joined hands to generate 500 MW wind power in Pakistan. Chief Executive of Pakistan’s Alternative Energy Development Board Arif Alauddin said here on Friday that China Datang Corporation Renewable Power Company which is the largest power producer (74000-1000,000 MW) and NBT, a Norwegian Company reached an agreement to develop 500 MW wind energy in Pakistan.

He said that the financial close of its first 50 MW wind farm is expected by end of this year. Another company namely AEI, a multi-billionaire UK company also supported the agreement and resolved to be an investment partner with the NBT and Datang for making investment in Pakistan.

Pakistan and China on Friday signed four memorandums of understanding (MoUs) in health, wind power and building of two major highways in Gilgit-Baltistan.

The memorandums of understanding were signed after the address of President Asif Ali Zardari to the Pak-China Economic Cooperation Forum.

Under the agreement, China will build 165km long Jaglot-Skardu Road and 135km long Thakot-Sazin Road. The projects would cost Rs45 billion with 15 percent financing by Pakistan and 85 percent by China.

Under another MoU to be jointly executed by Chinese company Datang and Norwegian company EBT, 500 MW would be produced through wind power. The wind turbines would be set up along the coastal areas of Karachi and Sindh at a cost of $1 billion and would be completed in a short span of time.

The agreements were signed by National Highway Authority Chairman Altaf Ahmad Chaudhry with his Chinese counterpart and witnessed by President Zardari.

Meanwhile, a senior Chinese trade official said on Friday that the trade between China and Pakistan could double within five years to hit $15 billion by 2015.

Addressing the China-Pakistan Economic Cooperation Forum, Chinese Minister of Commerce Chen Deming said that there is enormous potential for trade growth between the two countries.

He called upon the companies to take full advantage of the existing free trade agreement to expand investment and bilateral trade.

He also urged the two sides to make full use of bilateral cooperation mechanisms and make them serve the two countries’ trade and economic cooperation.

China-Pakistan trade in the first five months of this year reached $3.3 billion, up 31 per cent. Addressing the China-Pakistan Economic Cooperation Forum earlier on Friday, Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming said that bilateral trade could hit $15 billion in 2015.

 

[Hyde]

I don't think they can build 500 MW of Wind Power by just 1 Billion dollars

But if this happens, its a great news!

 

[PakSher]

Pakistan has energy shortage, but there are many projects underway and in a few years we willl be good, Inshallah.

 

[mjnaushad]

I think cities like karachi and gwadar should be powered fully by wind power. Cheap and always available. It will be better than power plants breaking down every other day.

 

[Skywalker]

This Raja Pervez Asharaf is nothing but a liar, he has been saying this since the day his crook govt. came into power.

This is only consumption for the media and stupid public.

People of Pakistan unfortunately have got what they deserve.

 

[Malik Usman]

This Raja Pervez Asharaf is nothing but a liar, he has been saying this since the day his crook govt. came into power.

This is only consumption for the media and stupid public.

People of Pakistan unfortunately have got what they deserve.

Absolutely right......he is a big lier......even he don't know how to measure the water......shown by Geo TV in press conference.....he was asking from the man behind his seat...how water is measured?..

If you got votes from peoples it dosen't means that you are capable of some position you are holding.....and in Pakistan there is no demoracy.....where votes are casted according to tribe system.
Leaders came ....but just faces changed.....their families, thinking and way of running this country remains same....

 

[Patriot]

He is the same guy who said Load Shedding would end by Dec 2009!

 

[v9s]

Meh...wind energy

Though we need all the energy we can get, i'd rather not have wind energy farms in Pak. It's an expensive venture, in the sense that the cost of electricity is much more higher compared to coal and nuclear.
Wind power is not consistent either.

 

[Safriz]

Waste of money in my opinion...Wind is an expensive option because of ongoing maintenance costs required by turbines.Plus wind is not constant and unreliable.
On windy days the turbines will work full blast,and on calm days there wont be enough power production. Here is something i wrote on another forum,might be interesting for some.

"When i was a boy,i heard on TV that Pakistan is facing 700 mega watts of Electricity shortage and that's why load shedding.Now i hear that Pakistan is facing 5000 megawatts of Power shortage.
There will be no Kalabagh Dam,and we are not allowed to build Nuclear power plants.Thar's coal wont be used for all the political reasons,and may not be feasible until the infra structure is built.
I was thinking of a way to produce electricity.My concept was to drive air compressors with wind turbines,instead of individual electric generators.
Mounting an air compressor on the windmill and many wind mills compressing air for a single large generator.Usually there are individual generators mounted with each wind turbine,and that's where it becomes expensive.
That way wind power can even be stored in the form of compressed air for later use.Some googling revealed that there are currently no electricity generators which can work efficiently with compressed air,and the few pneumatic motors available are low powered and don't generate enough torque for turning a large generator.Large Compressed air storage tanks are also expensive.
My concept of saving was to avoid mounting a number of individual generators on wind turbines,instead mount a readily available and much cheaper air compressor to use wind energy and to combine all power produced by a number of wind turbines to turn one large ground based electricity generator.But google tells me that the technology needed to make such a scheme commercially viable is either non existent or still rudimentary.
Not very developed..are we?
Building a dam is an option for Pakistan,a dam needs water for power production.All our rivers flow from India and they wont release enough water for us.What are the alternatives?
We got hundreds of miles of coast line.Where there is coast there is wind.In addition to that much of our coast line is Mountainous,uninhabited and a dam can be built within the mountains.Now from where to arrange water for such a coastal dam?
Can we fit wind turbines along our coast,and instead if fitting the wind turbines with expensive generators,can we fit them with readily available and cheaper water pumps?
Wind turbines run the water pumps.Sea Water is pumped up hill into a large coastal dam and stored there.Then it becomes a usual dam,with usual power production systems.The only difference is that the usual river is substituted with pumped sea water.The pumped sea water is stored in a large lake behind the dam,and then released through a large tunnel fitted with Hydroelectric turbines that turn generators.Since the dam is on or near the coast,the sea water is released back into the sea without polluting any rivers.
That way even in dry season,there will be no effect on the power production.Hundreds of large wind turbines will be needed.There will be no need of complex electronic or electrical systems to regulate electricity when the wind is fast or slow.The wind turbines will be plane dumb,wind driven water pumps,storing wind's kinetic energy in the form of pumped seawater.
Do you think this is a workable solution? Ideas welcome."

 

[naumananjum]

Pakistan should switch to coal and nuclear
and hydel if economy and people allows