There have been news headlines in the past few months about severe energy curtailment from wind based private power projects. These are disturbing since wind being a renewable resource and providing cheap energy to the grid, should not be subject to any unnecessary curtailment. It is praiseworthy that National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) took notice of these news reports and decided to hold a consultative meeting with the representatives of wind power plants at Jhimpir, Thatta on 6th February 2020. NEPRA had invited in this meeting participants from other federal government agencies such as CPPAG, NTDC, NPCC, HESCO, K-Electric…
Author: Gul Hassan Bhutto
The world’s energy-mix is changing rapidly to give priority to cleaner and renewable energy technologies to counter the looming threat of climate change. According to New Energy Outlook 2019 (NEO 2019) from the international research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), global power generation capacity will shift from its 57 percent fossil fuel base today, to 66 percent renewables by 2050. The additional 12,000 GW generation capacity will require investment of US$13.3 trillion by 2050, 77 percent of which will go directly to renewable power production and energy storage technologies. Global power sector emissions are on-track for 2 degree C…