{"id":55991,"date":"2019-10-05T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=55991"},"modified":"2019-10-04T18:26:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T13:26:49","slug":"minister-seeks-plan-from-companies-to-make-lahore-go-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/minister-seeks-plan-from-companies-to-make-lahore-go-solar.html","title":{"rendered":"Minister seeks plan from companies to make Lahore go solar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Government of Punjab is looking to provide cheap power solutions to the residents of Lahore, for which the provincial Minister of Industries and Commerce Mian Islam Iqbal has invited plans from solar companies, a news source reported.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/us-firm-plans-invest-pakistans-solar-energy-sector.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">US firm plans to invest in Pakistan\u2019s solar energy sector<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a meeting held to review the options for private-public partnership in the solar sector, the minster stated that the Punjab government is keen on increasing the use of solar energy throughout the province. Minister Iqbal invited the companies to share their plans for the provision of solar power to the industrial estate. Representatives of private solar companies attended the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/canadian-firm-to-work-on-solar-projects-in-punjab.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canadian firm to work on solar projects in Punjab<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He also mentioned that small industries can also shift to solar power. The solar power companies expressed an interest in providing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/schools-in-punjab-to-shift-to-solar-power-by-december.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">solar energy to schools<\/a> and government offices. To which the minister said that these companies will get all the help they needed to promote the usage of solar power in Punjab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Government of Punjab is looking to provide cheap power solutions to the residents of Lahore, for which the provincial Minister of Industries and Commerce Mian Islam Iqbal has invited plans from solar companies, a news source reported. Read:\u00a0US firm plans to invest in Pakistan\u2019s solar energy sector In a meeting held to review the options for private-public partnership in the solar sector, the minster stated that the Punjab government is keen on increasing the use of solar energy throughout the province. Minister Iqbal invited the companies to share their plans for the provision of solar power to the industrial estate. Representatives of private solar companies attended the meeting. Read:\u00a0Canadian firm to work on solar projects in Punjab He also mentioned that small industries can also shift to solar power. The solar power companies expressed an interest in providing solar energy to schools and government offices. To which the minister said that these companies will get all the help they needed to promote the usage of solar power in Punjab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":7749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13307],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-minister-seeks-plan-from-companies-to-make-lahore-go-solar"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Minister seeks plan from companies to make Lahore go solar - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The Government of Punjab is looking to provide cheap power solutions to the residents of Lahore, for which the provincial Minister of Industries\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/minister-seeks-plan-from-companies-to-make-lahore-go-solar.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Minister seeks plan from companies to make Lahore go solar - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: The Government of Punjab is looking to provide cheap power solutions to the residents of Lahore, for which the provincial Minister of Industries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/minister-seeks-plan-from-companies-to-make-lahore-go-solar.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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