LAHORE – Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) President Ijaz Mumtaz urged the government to promote alternate energy resources, as reliance on conventional resources like thermal was one of the biggest reasons of energy crisis.
According to a Nepra report which has been contradicted, the country will face a shortfall of 1200 megawatts in 2020, an estimate that has come in spite of repeated claims by the government of successfully countering the power shortage, by the end of the decade.
He said LCCI will hold special training sessions for the guidance of technical people with the latest trends in new alternative technologies and to increase their efficiency. It will bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars at one place to come up with a joint strategy to make best use of this technology, he added.
He said, “We all are aware of present challenges to our economy and especially the menace widely caused due to severe energy crisis.” He said it was indeed a matter of concern for us that our gas reserves were depleting with the passage of time. Be it domestic or industrial users all have to face shortage of gas in winter season. Even the generation of electricity through gas has to put on halt in this period that further aggravates the situation.
