Shahabaz arrives Xinjiang to explore setting up solar energy plants

[AirRodgers]

Sorry But Solar Wind and nuclear are expensive to install and maintain. We need cheap energy for our dying industry, we need cheap energy. Why spend Billions of dollars on solar, wind or nuclear, Why these government cann't focus on hydel generation. cheap electrity plus no floods every year, saving billions of dollars of crude oil import and food prices would also be under control as no demages to crops by annual flooding and we would have extra water as well.

100% in agreement with all this, for Pakistan to invest in a rich nation energy source mean, you guys can't compete.. Look at China they leverage their low wage plus low fuel cost by using the cheapest possible source coal to develop their economy.. Once your economy is up and running, you than can start to move away from those cheap and harmful source of fuel like coal, like China is trying to do now by moving to nuclear, solar , wind , and shale gas...As China move away from using coal, the price of coal will drop there by making it even a more cost effective way for Pakistan to use it as a low fuel source to develop...

 

[SBD-3]

Sorry But Solar Wind and nuclear are expensive to install and maintain. We need cheap energy for our dying industry, we need cheap energy. Why spend Billions of dollars on solar, wind or nuclear, Why these government cann't focus on hydel generation. cheap electrity plus no floods every year, saving billions of dollars of crude oil import and food prices would also be under control as no demages to crops by annual flooding and we would have extra water as well.

Cheap energy comes after energy starts to exist. Our industry doesn't even have enough energy leave aside it being cheaper.

 

[Chak Bamu]

Solar panel manufacture is not difficult, nor is it cost prohibitive for us to set up. It is not rocket science.

Someone is manufacturing panels in Hattar, I believe. But Chinese are masters are volume production and low cost. I doubt if any Pakistani start-up can compete with Chinese suppliers, because the raw material, Silicon ingots would have to be sources from China, which is the leading manufacturer of purified silicon by virtue of it being by far the biggest supplier of electronic components.

We need a few years of growth and results of a good energy policy to be able to compete with China. We can do it, but not today or in the near future. The best bet is to import the solar cells from China, and not obsess about manufacturing these by ourselves. We need to be in a position to produce silicon on a large industrial scale, before we can even think about making Solar cells from scratch.

 

[faisal6309]

Cheap energy comes after energy starts to exist. Our industry doesn't even have enough energy leave aside it being cheaper.

What are you talking about? Pakistan’s coal resource potential is estimated to be around 186 billion tonnes out of which 175 billion tonnes are found in Thar.

Pakistan’s misguided energy policy

The coal and energy crisis

Thar Coal key to Pakistan’s energy security

And we have tonnes of it here

 

[SBD-3]

What are you talking about? Pakistan’s coal resource potential is estimated to be around 186 billion tonnes out of which 175 billion tonnes are found in Thar.

Pakistan’s misguided energy policy

The coal and energy crisis

Thar Coal key to Pakistan’s energy security

And we have tonnes of it here

Punjab has 446m tons of coal reserves | Pakistan Defence