Pakistan Turning To Wind

In coal-focused Pakistan, a wind power breeze is blowing; Chinese funding is still pushing a huge expansion in coal use, however, with wind and solar a secondary focus.

21 July 2017 (Thomas Reuters Foundation via Eco-Business)

“Pakistan is beginning to reap the benefits of Chinese investment in renewable energy infrastructure, with the opening of the first wind power project constructed as part of the huge China-Pakistan Economic Corridor [CPEC], aimed at overhauling the country’s transport and energy systems…[The nearly 50 megawatt wind farm is in] the so-called “Gharo-Jhimpir wind corridor” in Sindh province, a 180 km (110 mile) stretch of coastal land that the Pakistan Meteorological Department says has the potential to produce 11,000 MW of electricity through wind power…Pakistan and China have signed around $57 billion of energy and infrastructure projects…[Most of this CPEC investment is going towards coal-fired power plants but it also includes thousands of MWs of] renewable energy projects…The World Bank has now started mapping Pakistan’s entire wind potential, looking at wind corridors in Punjab as well…” click here for more

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