PRESENTED BYMUHAMMAD IRFAN

COMSATS Institute of information Technology Islamabad

Role of Renewable Energy in Pakistan’s Energy Mix

• According to a study, Pakistan has identified cumulative potential to generate 3.2 million MW from renewable energy resources including:• 340,000 MW from wind • 2.9 million MW from solar • 50,000 MW from hydro (large) • 3,100 MW from hydro (small) • 1,800 MW from biogases cogeneration • 500 MW from waste

Renewable Energy Sources

• Hydropower Energy• Wind Energy• Coal Energy• Solar Energy• Biogas Energy

Renewable Energy Source

Hydropower Potential In Pakistan

Hydropower Energy

• Present demand of electricity in country in actual is above 17,000 MW and will be 30,000 MW by year 2017• Energy deficit was 3,000 to 5,000 MW .• 70 % of hydro potential lies in KPK• Total installed capacity is 22,797MW. • Hydro 6,611 MW. • 29% of total

Wind Energy

Wind Energy

• Wind energy potential is 346,000 MW in Pakistan.• Gwadar port has a potential of approximately 50,000MW.• Gharo and Keti Bandar that alone could produce between 40,000 and 50,000 • Wind energy Project

• Jhimpir• Gharo, Thatta District

• There are following issues with wind energy uses1. Birds collision or alteration of their migration routes2. Noise impact3. Flickering

Coal Energy

Coal Energy

• Pakistan has the 7th largest coal reserve in the world and we only produce 0.2% of electricity from it• A Single Thar coal reserve of Sindh is about 850 Trillion Cubic Feet.• Just 2% usage of Thar coal can produce 20,000 Mega Watts of

electricity for next 40 years, without any single second of “Load Shedding”.• Australia produce 77% of their electricity from coal. • In Pakistan, there are plans to build only two 300 MW coal-fired

plants at Thar.

Solar Energy

Solar Energy

• Solar energy has excellent potential in areas of Pakistan that receive high levels of solar radiation throughout the year.• Solar energy potential for power generation in Pakistan is

approximately 2.9 million MW.• The country receives an average of about 19 Mega Joules per square

meter of solar energy.• Presently, not enough work or research being done on this potential.

QUAID-E-AZAM Solar Park (QASP)

Cholistan• Government has initiated a project of QASP in Punjab. • The area of QASP is about 11,000 acres with 1000 MW solar energy

generation capacity. • The land requirement for generation of 1 MW electricity is 5 acres.• 5,000 acres land will be reserved for 1000 MW energy production. • The 20 farms consisting of 250 acres area of each farm will be

developed.• Capacity of each farm will be 50 MW.

Biogas Energy

• Pakistan has almost 3,000 MW power generation potential in sugar industry through biogas, but it is hardly producing some 700MW.• Pakistan has almost 159 million animals that produce almost 652

million kilogram of manure daily from cattle and buffalo only, which can be used to generate 16.3 million-cubic-meters biogas per day and 21 million tones of bio fertilizer per year.• A biogas unit of 10-cubic-meter size is anticipated to save almost

Rs92,062 per annum on account of conventional fuels spent

Focused Potential

• Despite all the potentials indicated; I think more focus should be given to renewable such as Solar, Biogas and Wind energies.• 7876 out of 40,000 of un-electrified villages cannot be connected to

the national gird for another 20 years due to their distance from the national grid, due to lack of technical and economical facilities available.• Solar panels can be installed in individual villages, according to their

demands.• Those villages which have more manure produced can be benefited

from biogas plants; more jobs would also be created for people.

Future Project

Future Project