Green Pakistan

Yesterday i was watching a news channel and there was no bound of my delight when i came to know that Fauji Fertilizers has installed the country's first ever WInd Turbine for power generation.The capacity of this project is 50 MW.This news is like a cool breeze for our country which is already facing eenrgy crisis and has to import furnace oil to generate power from thermal powerplants .What adds to my delight is that 27 out of 33 turbines and rotors are locally manufactured as per told by one of Fauji Fertilizers official.

Wind Energy Potential in Paksitan

You will be shocked to know that the wind map developed by National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), USA in collaboration with USAID, has indicated a potential of 3,46,000 MW in Pakistan.

The Gharo-Keti Bandar wind corridor spreading 60 KM along the coastline of Sind Province and more than 170 km deep towards the land alone has a potential of approximately 50,000 MW.

30% ~ 32% Capacity Factor estimated in Gharo -Keti Bandar area.

Wind resource in Gharo ~ Keti Bandar wind corridor validated by RisO DTU National Laboratory,Denmark

Solar Energy Potential

I being a Meachanical Engineer know that Potential of power generation by use of Solar Energy is some 40,000 MW in Paksitan.this means that Pakistan can produce a total of 3,86,000 MW green energy whereas our demand of energy at present is some 30,000 MW (at maximum).

Long term planning to overcome energy crisis

So if we start power generation as afore-mentioned ,we'll be not only fulfilling our energy need but we'll be able to earn revenue  by exporting it to neighbour countries. 

Additional benefits

if such projects are approved and registered by the governmenet of the country in which these are installed,Clean Development Mechanism Programme issues a CER value (Certified Emission Reduction Value) to that project.

CER credits then can be traded intenationally against money.CER is actually the maount of emissions which would have polluted the atmosphere if the same amount of electricity was to be produced by thermal energy.

For example, 1 MW of electricity production from thermal energy takes some 3.5 tonnes of coal or 10.5 tonnes of CO2 consequently.but prodcuing 1 MW from solar energy or wind energy for the same time would actually mean reduction of 10.5 tonnes.

These amounts end up in metric tonnes when we talk about annual power generation,and in October 2012  prices of CER were 1.36 euros per metric ton of CER.

In short,the money you can earn by generating green energy and hence trading CER can not only cover the fabrication,installation and transportation cost within 1-2 years but can actually start earning you profit.So,we must install green energy projects as much as we can if we are inteersted in developing long term plans for the country.