{"id":58684,"date":"2019-12-15T10:03:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T05:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=58684"},"modified":"2019-12-13T18:05:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T13:05:25","slug":"ptcl-converts-700-facilities-to-solar-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ptcl-converts-700-facilities-to-solar-power.html","title":{"rendered":"PTCL converts 700 facilities to solar power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL), in an effort to participate in the Clean and Green Pakistan Movement, has decided to convert 700 of its facilities to solar power \u2014 according to a news source. For this purpose, it will install state-of-the-art solar power systems in its headquarters, regional offices, and exchanges, which will help conserve energy and support the environmental preservation drive currently underway in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/aedb-approves-draft-of-renewable-energy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AEDB approves draft of renewable energy policy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As part of this comprehensive plan, a 180 kilowatt (KW) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/solar-plant-facility-developed-by-italian-group-inaugurated.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">solar power system<\/a> has been deployed at PTCL\u2019s headquarters in Islamabad. Chief Technology &amp; Information Officer at PTCL Saad Muzaffar Waraich stated that being a national company, PTCL is very proud of its efforts in protecting the environment and reducing their carbon footprint in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/minister-seeks-plan-from-companies-to-make-lahore-go-solar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minister seeks plan from companies to make Lahore go solar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He further added that with solar power systems installed at PTCL facilities, the company has safe energy production alternatives to the currently used fossil fuels, such as oil and gas, which are harmful for the environment. He lauded this initiative as a positive step towards reducing air, water, and land pollution \u2014 with the added benefit of reducing dependency on the national power grid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL), in an effort to participate in the Clean and Green Pakistan Movement, has decided to convert 700 of its facilities to solar power \u2014 according to a news source. For this purpose, it will install state-of-the-art solar power systems in its headquarters, regional offices, and exchanges, which will help conserve energy and support the environmental preservation drive currently underway in the country. Read: AEDB approves draft of renewable energy policy As part of this comprehensive plan, a 180 kilowatt (KW) solar power system has been deployed at PTCL\u2019s headquarters in Islamabad. Chief Technology &amp; Information Officer at PTCL Saad Muzaffar Waraich stated that being a national company, PTCL is very proud of its efforts in protecting the environment and reducing their carbon footprint in the country. Read: Minister seeks plan from companies to make Lahore go solar He further added that with solar power systems installed at PTCL facilities, the company has safe energy production alternatives to the currently used fossil fuels, such as oil and gas, which are harmful for the environment. He lauded this initiative as a positive step towards reducing air, water, and land pollution \u2014 with the added benefit&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":13529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7799,14435,6030],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-energy-conservation","8":"tag-ptcl","9":"tag-solar-power"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PTCL converts 700 facilities to solar power - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Karachi: The Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL), in an effort to participate in the Clean and Green Pakistan Movement, has decided to\" \/>\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\/ptcl-converts-700-facilities-to-solar-power.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PTCL converts 700 facilities to solar power - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karachi: The Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL), in an effort to participate in the Clean and Green Pakistan Movement, has decided to\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ptcl-converts-700-facilities-to-solar-power.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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