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Wind Energy in Pakistan Opportunities and Challenges
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Wind Energy in Pakistan Opportunities and Challenges
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Pakistan is an energy deficit country and the electricity mix of the country is heavily tilted towards imported oil that is approx. 35 percent; which makes its electricity sector highly vulnerable. Pakistan is blessed with abundance of wind resource. A satellite mapping conducted by USAID in collaboration with NREL suggests a gross potential of 346,000 MW that can be generated with wind energy all across the country. Out of this estimated potential a single corridor along the Gharoâ€Keti Bandar area in the southern coastal region offers a potential of 50,000 MW. However, Pakistan was a late entrant to the avenue of commercialâ€scale wind development. Pakistan’s Wind Energy Programme was initiated in 2004 at a time when no verifiable resource data, policy and regulatory framework were in place. Pakistan’s first ever Renewable Energy Policy was issued in December 2006, which along with several liberal incentives, introduced the un...
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Irfan Afzal Mirza, Sana Ahmed, Prof Dr. M. Shahid Khalil
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