Solving Pakistan's Power Crisis

[Omar1984]

Where are we getting this data from!

The coal reserves list here shows Pakistan at 19th position.

The 2% also looks way over the top.

Sunlight is abundant in so many Asian and African countries and all others that are at similar latitudes.

Can you even imagine the land required to produce 100,000 MW solar energy!

BTW I just noticed the small note below the list in wikipedia:


Proved recoverable coal reserves at end-2006 (million tonnes (teragrams))[41] Country Bituminous & anthracite SubBituminous & lignite TOTAL Share
USA 111,338 135,305 246,643 27.1
Russia 49,088 107,922 157,010 17.3
China 62,200 52,300 114,500 12.6
India 90,085 2,360 92,445 10.2
Australia 38,600 39,900 78,500 8.6
South Africa 48,750 0 48,750 5.4
Ukraine 16,274 17,879 34,153 3.8
Kazakhstan 28,151 3,128 31,279 3.4
Poland 14,000 0 14,000 1.5
Brazil 0 10,113 10,113 1.1
Germany 183 6,556 6,739 0.7
Colombia 6,230 381 6,611 0.7
Canada 3,471 3,107 6,578 0.7
Czech Republic 2,094 3,458 5,552 0.6
Indonesia 740 4,228 4,968 0.5
Turkey 278 3,908 4,186 0.5
Greece 0 3,900 3,900 0.4
Hungary 198 3,159 3,357 0.4
Pakistan 0 3,300 3,300 0.3
Bulgaria 4 2,183 2,187 0.2
Thailand 0 1,354 1,354 0.1
North Korea 300 300 600 0.1
New Zealand 33 538 571 0.1
Spain 200 330 530 0.1
Zimbabwe 502 0 502 0.1
Romania 22 472 494 0.1
Venezuela 479 0 479 0.1
TOTAL 478,771 430,293 909,064 100.0

Recent discoveries in the Thar region of Pakistan have given rise to a discovery of nearly 185 billion tonnes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal

 

[RabzonKhan]

UAE to donate 320MW power plant to Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Feb 2 (APP): United Arab Emirates (UAE) has offered to donate power plant of 320 MW capacity as a gift to the people of Pakistan to help overcome energy crisis.

Minister for Water and Power, Raja Pervez Ashraf has left for Dubai (UAE) on Monday to sign an MoU with concerned UAE authorities and to work out the detailed plan for implementation of the agreement for the dismantling, packing and shifting of the plant to Pakistan.

The Minister before leaving Dubai in a statement termed it a goodwill gesture on the part of UAE for the people of Pakistan. He said that the people of Pakistan will always remember this precious gift, which they are receiving with love and sincerity from brotherly country of UAE.

He said that the Pak-UAE relations will further boost and both the brotherly countries will help each other in energy sector in the near future.

Pervez Ashraf said that the present government is striving hard to mitigate the menace of load shedding by adding new capacity in generation in the shortest possible time, adding, all out efforts are being made to achieve this target.

It is pertinent to mention here that Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nayhan had offered to donate used power plant of 320 MW capacity as a gift free of cost to Pakistan during the last visit of President of Pakistan to UAE.