MANSEHRA: A Spanish company has offered to produce 50MW of solar electricity on cheap rates provided the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government rented the firm a 2,000 kanal of land to set up the required infrastructure.

The officials of Transworld solar company of Spain visited Mansehra and Peshawar, where during their meetings with the government functionaries they expressed willingness to install a solar plant to supply cheap electricity to parts of Hazara division.

Ambreen Swati, the district president of PTI’s women wing, who is a focal person for KP government, told reporters here that director Antonio Garcia and chief engineer Gonzalez Carlos of Spanish company had recently visited here and demanded 2,000 kanals of barren land to set up the plant.

She said the provincial government had been seriously considering the project as it would help address issue of loadshedding in Mansehra, Abbottabad and Haripur.

Ms Ambreen said the Spanish company delegation had also met Akbar Ayub, the chairman of Pakhtunkhwa Electricity Development Organisation and Naeem Khan, secretary energy KP, where both officials appreciated the offer extended by the Spanish firm to produce 50MW electricity on cheaper rates.

“We have been searching for a 2,000 kanals of barren land anywhere in Mansehra, Abbottabad and Haripur, and once the land is found then modalities on the project would be finalised between KP and the foreign company,” she said.

Published in Dawn, June 19th, 2016