On Tuesday, President Asif Ali Zardari asked leading businessmen and industrialists to work with the government to find a permanent solution to nationwide power shortages. He asked private sector entrepreneurs to brainstorm ‘out-of-box’ solutions to the ongoing power crisis, admitting that rental power projects contracted by the government could only address immediate energy needs.
President Zardari invited the businessmen to weigh in on the idea that energy investors form a company which could offer shares to the general public to raise capital. In turn, the private entrepreneurs suggested addressing circular debt, harnassing solar energy and hydel generation.
Do you think the private sector can help the government counter the country’s power crisis? What would you have suggested as a solution to the energy problem if you had been invited to brainstorm ideas with the president and prominent entrepreneurs?
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Pak gov should encourage renewable energy use ie solar panels and domestic wind turbines. It is a scandal that we do not manufacture solar panels in the country – which should be installed on the roofs of all houses and flats in the country – the amount of sun energy pakistan receives this will reduce the burden on the missing national grid. But then the question is… how do you take advantage of the poor people if they have power in their own hands?
Yes it can Government should allow everybody to generate power on their own. Lower the taxes on Solar panels, allow and support installation of small Wind turbines. banks should finance people to generate power from Green sources on their own.
Companies which have factories in Wind belt , should be helped with at least 20% of their energy using wind. Just as some firms are doing in India.
Allow Manufacture of large scale wind turbine and Solar Panel here in Pakistan. Indians are third largest Producer in World while there is little mention of this.