Sialkot

A Chinese state-run company, Shenhua Group Corporation, which had rolled back its plan in 2006, is likely to invest $1.5 billion for setting up 1,000 Megawatts coal-fired plants, it is reliably learnt.

The Sindh government had started re-establishing contacts with the Chinese firm and was giving assurances that no hindrance would be put in place in the project, sources told Business Recorder.

The government would extend all possible support for production and promotion of solar water heaters in Pakistan, said Raja Pervez Ashraf, Chairman AEDB/Minister for Water and Power, while presiding over the 19th AEDB Board meeting here on Friday.

The first Pak-US Energy Dialogue is set to be held in Islamabad in October, where Pakistan is expected to receive Rs 28 billion from the US to help lifeline electricity consumers, official sources told Daily Times on Friday.

Members of the proposed US Energy Taskforce and Pakistani authorities would also discuss and finalise the modalities of energy cooperation between the two countries.

Spokesman to the President Farhatullah Babar on Tuesday said that Chinese Foreign Minister has advocated Pakistan's right to nuclear energy to overcome its power shortage and utilise it for peaceful purposes. In an interview with APP, he said during President Asif Ali Zardari's meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi last night.

The US administration is willing to offer guarantees to private investors keen to invest in Pakistan

Pakistan will have its first clean coal power generation facility by the end of next year, said Hillard Herzog, the CEO of a US-based energy firm Bergamo E&A in an interview with BR Research of Business Recorder.

The Environment Protection Department (EPD) is initiating a solar energy project in southern Punjab, an official told Dawn.

The project cost is about Rs84 million and Rs34.505 million has been earmarked for the current year, says EPD Director General Shagufta Shahjahan.

First-ever state of-the-art wastage to energy power plant will be set up at Rachna industrial park on Lahore Sheikhupura Road. The park will have its own 5 to 25 megawatt power plant, which would produce energy from waste for the industries.

Ministry of Environment (MoE) and Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN) on Thursday inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) worth Rs 2,801 million to facilitate implementation Domestic Biogas Programme. Director General Environment Javed Ali Khan signed the MoU document on behalf of the Ministry and Ms Shandana Khan Chief Executive Officer of RSPN respectively.