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Minister for Energy Khurram Dastgir has said the Federal government is vigorously working to enhance production of electricity from indigenous resources with focus on renewable energy.
He was addressing the inaugural ceremony of two wind power projects of 10 Megawatts capacity at Jhampir in Thatta district on Wednesday.
The Minister said that promotion of renewable energy will not only reduce the dependence on imported oil but it will also help reducing the consumer tariff.
He said that, the present government has a vision to produce each and every megawatt of electricity by utilizing our own internal resources like wind, solar and coal reserves.
The Federal Minister said that the government is going to start a 10000 megawatt solar power project soon while completion of Sukki Kinari power project will be by the end of next year.
Khurram Dastgir said that vast coal reserves of Thar have a great potential. He said we are using water technology to produce electricity with minimum environmental impacts.
Source: Radio Pakistan