{"id":58551,"date":"2019-12-11T12:25:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T07:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=58551"},"modified":"2019-12-11T12:25:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T07:25:49","slug":"use-alternate-energy-sources-reduce-electricity-bills-ayub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/use-alternate-energy-sources-reduce-electricity-bills-ayub.html","title":{"rendered":"Use of alternate energy sources to reduce electricity bills: Ayub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The government is working on providing cheap electricity to its consumers through the use of alternate sources of power generation, a news source quoted Minister for Power Omar Ayub Khan as saying. Further, he stated that the executive was committed to achieving its vision for the country\u2019s development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/engro-produce-electricity-solid-waste-karachi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Engro to produce electricity from solid waste in Karachi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Responding to a call-attention notice during a National Assembly (NA) session held on Tuesday, Ayub stated that authorities concerned planned to generate 8,000 Megawatts (MWs) of electricity through solar and wind energy projects by 2025. He added that consumers would have this electricity available for less than PKR 6.5 per unit.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed that the government was formulating a policy framework for the generation of 70% to 80% of energy from domestic resources; which would help the executive in its efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/flat-tariff-regime-announcement-expected-electricity-consumers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">provide electricity to the general public<\/a> at affordable rates.<\/p>\n<p>The minister told the NA session that the government had devised an equitable distribution system of the resources, including energy, for all parts of the country. He added that the executive had allocated PKR 54 billion in the national budget to offer relief to consumers utilising less than 300 units of electricity on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/korea-interested-invest-pakistans-energy-sector.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Korea interested to invest in Pakistan&#8217;s energy sector<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The call-attention notice was served over reports pertaining to the inclusion of fuel surcharge in electricity bills from the Malakand region. The locals had complained about the addition despite the production of electricity from four local power houses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The government is working on providing cheap electricity to its consumers through the use of alternate sources of power generation, a news source quoted Minister for Power Omar Ayub Khan as saying. Further, he stated that the executive was committed to achieving its vision for the country\u2019s development. Read:\u00a0Engro to produce electricity from solid waste in Karachi Responding to a call-attention notice during a National Assembly (NA) session held on Tuesday, Ayub stated that authorities concerned planned to generate 8,000 Megawatts (MWs) of electricity through solar and wind energy projects by 2025. He added that consumers would have this electricity available for less than PKR 6.5 per unit. He revealed that the government was formulating a policy framework for the generation of 70% to 80% of energy from domestic resources; which would help the executive in its efforts to provide electricity to the general public at affordable rates. The minister told the NA session that the government had devised an equitable distribution system of the resources, including energy, for all parts of the country. He added that the executive had allocated PKR 54 billion in the national budget to offer relief to consumers utilising less than 300 units of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":44835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14371],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-details-on-use-of-alternate-energy-sources-to-reduce-electricity-bills-ayub"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Use of alternate energy sources to reduce electricity bills: Ayub - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The government is working on providing cheap electricity to its consumers through the use of alternate sources of power generation, a news source\" \/>\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\/use-alternate-energy-sources-reduce-electricity-bills-ayub.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Use of alternate energy sources to reduce electricity bills: Ayub - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: The government is working on providing cheap electricity to its consumers through the use of alternate sources of power generation, a news source\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/use-alternate-energy-sources-reduce-electricity-bills-ayub.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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