KARACHI, March 10: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan said that new projects of alternate energy would soon start functioning in Sindh to help overcome energy crisis. He said that 64 wind turbines would be installed at Thatta, Jhumpir and other places in the interior of the province by the Sindh Alternate Energy Department in coordination with Alternate Energy Development Board through which 15,000mw energy would be produced.

He was speaking at a dinner hosted by him at the Governor’s House in the honour of local and foreign participants of ICAEP-2007 exhibition.

The governor pointed out that the energy requirement was increasing day by day and work was being done on other projects also to meet energy shortage.

Dr Ibad felicitated Sindh Environment and Alternate Energy Minister Dr Saghir Ahmed and the exhibition organisers and said that wind energy today was regarded as fast speed energy the world over.

He informed that the US was carrying out research on modern wind energy projects while China was preparing to install 20,000mw wind energy plants. Similarly neighbouring India, too, has made a good progress in this field, he added.

Dr Ibad pointed out that Pakistan had attracted world’s attention because of its economic stability and had become lucrative country for investment and investors were being extended incentives.

The governor said that wind energy plant would prove more successful in the coastal areas because of speedy winds.

He said that while installing wind energy plants, the basic thing that would be kept in mind, was that those areas which were still without electricity were mainly benefited by this project.

Sindh Environment Minister Dr Saghir Ahmed, Alternate Energy Development Board chairman Air Marshal Shahid Hamid and others also spoke.—APP