{"id":81241,"date":"2021-11-08T17:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=81241"},"modified":"2021-11-09T16:48:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T11:48:50","slug":"public-schools-in-punjab-to-be-shifted-on-solar-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/public-schools-in-punjab-to-be-shifted-on-solar-power.html","title":{"rendered":"Public schools in Punjab to be shifted to solar power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lahore: The Punjab government has introduced an environment-friendly, sustainable energy initiative, under which, as many as 4,000 public schools will be shifted to solar power, according to news sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/solar-power-project-inaugurated-civil-hospital.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Solar power project inaugurated at Karachi\u2019s Civil Hospital<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As per the details shared, the government\u2019s \u2018Ujala\u2019 initiative is aimed at shifting public schools to sustainable solar power. More than 450 of the 4,000 schools designated for the programmes are government institutions. The provincial government&#8217;s energy department has selected two private firms that bid the lowest price to assist in the execution of these programmes. The private firms were short-listed after a transparent bidding process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-convert-buildings-solar-energy.html\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-convert-buildings-solar-energy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sindh to convert 200 buildings to sustainable solar energy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moreover, it was highlighted that the schools will be converted to solar energy in several packages. This initiative will not only help reduce carbon footprint but also reduce costs incurred in electricity bills in the long term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Punjab government has introduced an environment-friendly, sustainable energy initiative, under which, as many as 4,000 public schools will be shifted to solar power, according to news sources. Read: Solar power project inaugurated at Karachi\u2019s Civil Hospital As per the details shared, the government\u2019s \u2018Ujala\u2019 initiative is aimed at shifting public schools to sustainable solar power. More than 450 of the 4,000 schools designated for the programmes are government institutions. The provincial government&#8217;s energy department has selected two private firms that bid the lowest price to assist in the execution of these programmes. The private firms were short-listed after a transparent bidding process. Read: Sindh to convert 200 buildings to sustainable solar energy Moreover, it was highlighted that the schools will be converted to solar energy in several packages. This initiative will not only help reduce carbon footprint but also reduce costs incurred in electricity bills in the long term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":64996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181,15016],"tags":[49376],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-81241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","category-new-developments","tag-public-schools-in-punjab-to-be-shifted-on-solar-power","cat-15181-id","cat-15016-id"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Public schools in Punjab to be shifted to solar power - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The Punjab government has introduced an environment-friendly, sustainable energy initiative, under which, as many as 4,000 public schools will be\" \/>\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\/public-schools-in-punjab-to-be-shifted-on-solar-power.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Public schools in Punjab to be shifted to solar power - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: The Punjab government has introduced an environment-friendly, sustainable energy initiative, under which, as many as 4,000 public schools will be\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/public-schools-in-punjab-to-be-shifted-on-solar-power.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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