Sunday, August 06, 2006

Solar energy a vital alternative source of power

LAHORE: Following international oil prices shooting sky-high, the resurgence of interest in the solar energy as an alternative source of power has significantly gained currency in the country.
Statistics available here shows that there are still some 40,000 villages in Pakistan deprived of electricity, while 7,000 of them are located at places 20-kilometres away from the nearby grid stations, where making the power facility available would be a difficult task.
In such a backdrop, the use of solar energy as an alternative source of power is being given due priority by the government for meeting the acute power shortage in the country these days.
Officials told that the costly imported appliances for harnessing solar energy were an impediment, which has now been removed by manufacturing local solar energy panel, which costs Rs52000 each working for 25 years, while the battery good enough for 2 years were being manufactured for Rs8000, which thus making a complete unit could give an output of 220 watts of electricity.
Besides domestic use, solar energy getting a boost here could also be used for cottage industries.

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