Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on Friday announced that parliamentary solar system has generated 80 megawatts electricity out of which 62 megawatts were consumed in the Parliament House and the rest surplus production of 18 megawatts was contributed to the national grid. The speaker made this announcement in the Lower House of the Parliament. He said that the project of 'Solar Energy' at the Parliament House was opened alive.
He said that this initiative has made the Parliament of Pakistan the first in the world that has been shifted on Solar Power completely. Earlier, Knesset, the parliament of Israel was also consuming the solar energy but it only generates10 percent of its total energy needs through solar means, he added.
Sadiq said that Pakistan's Parliament is the first in the country to have been issued a 'Net-Metering" license by the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA). 'Net-Metering' mechanism helps in delivering and adding the surplus production of energy to the national grid. This very project is environment friendly as it reduces the emission of hazardous gases which invite global warming.
The speaker acknowledged the assistance of the Chinese government for financially supporting this 'Solar Project' of 1 MW/hr. He also thanked the fellow parliamentarians, media and employees of the Parliament for their confidence and support in boosting up the role of the Parliament of Pakistan for an 'enlightened' future of the country. It may also be recalled that the Solar Project was launched jointly by the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, and the Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif during the former's visit to Pakistan last year. Nawaz Sharif is expected to formally 'Switch On' the Parliament's Solar Programme, sometime, later this month.
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