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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
PM prods provinces to generate electricityLAHORE: In his speech in the first session of the conference, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani emphasised upon the provinces to play their due role in efforts for generating power to overcome the energy crisis. He said the federal government was committed to energy security. “Our strategy is to ensure sustainable power supply at competitive prices to all sectors,” he said, elaborating that the government strategy involves further exploitation of hydropower to reduce cost of inputs, developing coal reserves for power generation and to convert oil-powered plants to coal. He said Thar coal reserves of 175 billion tonnes alone can generate around 100,000MW annually. Gilani said through effective steps, the present government has launched projects to add 3,400MW to the national grid over the last four years besides changing the energy mix and shifting towards hydel and coal. He said the government was also building Chashma III and IV and 747MW Guddu combined cycle power plant with the assistance of China, and was working on improvement of transmission and distribution system as well. staff report
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