Pakistan keen to exploit its wind power potential
Reuters, Islamabad
With oil prices soaring, Pakistan is keen to exploit its wind-generated power potential and there is no shortage of foreign companies lining up for a stake in what could provide up to 1,000 megawatts of extra capacity, officials said Thursday."Wind energy has a huge potential and the government wants to exploit it," Irfan Afzal Mirza, technical director at the government's Alternative Energy Development Board, told Reuters in an interview. "The aim is to shift 10 percent of total power generation to alternative renewable energy sources," he said. Mirza said six international companies -- among the world's leaders in wind-powered energy -- were vying to set up windmill farms in a coastal area of southern Sindh province identified as one of the best in the world for that type of technology. Mirza said Danish company Vestas was seeking to set up two farms of 100 MW each, while US company GE Wind GE.N had offered to set up farms with a total capacity of 400 MW.
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