{"id":70274,"date":"2020-09-10T09:53:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T04:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=70274"},"modified":"2020-09-10T12:30:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T07:30:43","slug":"work-pakistans-cheapest-solar-power-project-hydel-projects-punjab-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/work-pakistans-cheapest-solar-power-project-hydel-projects-punjab-minister.html","title":{"rendered":"Work on low-cost solar power project, other hydel projects underway in Punjab: Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: Punjab Information Minister Fayyaz-ul-Hassan Chauhan on Monday stated that work on \u2018Pakistan\u2019s cheapest solar power project\u2019 was underway in the province, a news source reported. He added that the authorities concerned were working on hydel power projects with a cumulative generation of 10,870 megawatts (MWs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-expedites-construction-seven-hydel-power-projects.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KP expedites construction in seven hydel power projects<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chauhan highlighted that the said solar power plant of 100MWs situated in Chobara area of Layyah was of \u2018special importance\u2019. He added that the project was started with the assistance of the private sector, which provided an investment worth PKR 10 billion. He explained that this project would add electricity to national grid at a nominal rate of 3.7 cents per unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister said that as per the directions of Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan, \u2018work on the Naya Pakistan Solarisation Programme was underway on war footing\u2019. He added that this project would help 15,000 primary schools and 1,400 primary health centres to shift on solar energy. He highlighted that so far, 8,000 schools had shifted to solar energy, and work on the remaining was underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/50-mw-solar-power-plants-developed-kp-sindh.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">50 MW solar power plants to be developed in KP, Sindh<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chauhan revealed that around 60 government universities in Punjab were beginning to shift to solar energy on the \u2018Esco model\u2019. He added that the solarisation of these institutions would provide 60MWs of clean, green, and affordable electricity. Additionally, it would provide PKR 1 billion annually and PKR 25 billion in the next 25 years to these universities, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: Punjab Information Minister Fayyaz-ul-Hassan Chauhan on Monday stated that work on \u2018Pakistan\u2019s cheapest solar power project\u2019 was underway in the province, a news source reported. He added that the authorities concerned were working on hydel power projects with a cumulative generation of 10,870 megawatts (MWs). Read: KP expedites construction in seven hydel power projects Chauhan highlighted that the said solar power plant of 100MWs situated in Chobara area of Layyah was of \u2018special importance\u2019. He added that the project was started with the assistance of the private sector, which provided an investment worth PKR 10 billion. He explained that this project would add electricity to national grid at a nominal rate of 3.7 cents per unit. The minister said that as per the directions of Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan, \u2018work on the Naya Pakistan Solarisation Programme was underway on war footing\u2019. He added that this project would help 15,000 primary schools and 1,400 primary health centres to shift on solar energy. He highlighted that so far, 8,000 schools had shifted to solar energy, and work on the remaining was underway. Read: 50 MW solar power plants to be developed in KP, Sindh Chauhan revealed that around 60 government&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":60804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15012,20385],"tags":[39043,39044,1008,39042],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allied-industries","8":"category-development-projects","9":"tag-cheapest-solar-power-project","10":"tag-hydel-power-projects","11":"tag-punjab","12":"tag-solar-power-project","13":"cat-15012-id","14":"cat-20385-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pakistan&#039;s cheapest solar power project in Punjab - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Punjab Information Minister Fayyaz-ul-Hassan Chauhan on Monday stated that work on \u2018Pakistan\u2019s cheapest solar power project\u2019 was underway in the province.\" \/>\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\/work-pakistans-cheapest-solar-power-project-hydel-projects-punjab-minister.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pakistan&#039;s cheapest solar power project in Punjab - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Punjab Information Minister Fayyaz-ul-Hassan Chauhan on Monday stated that work on \u2018Pakistan\u2019s cheapest solar power project\u2019 was underway in the province.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/work-pakistans-cheapest-solar-power-project-hydel-projects-punjab-minister.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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