Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor, Engineer Shaukatullah has given go ahead signal to take practical initiatives to explore possibility for installation of solar power generation systems in various parts of Fata with at least 10 megawatt electricity at each station.
Presiding over a meeting at Governor House, Peshawar on Friday, he said keeping in view the vast gap between supply and demand ration in respect of electricity in FATA in particular, there is a need to opt for solar energy system which offers tremendous opportunities for its development.
The meeting which was second of its nature was also attended by certain experts from the private sector enterprises, beside the Chief Executive, Tesco, Parvez Khan Swati, and the senior officials of the FATA Development Authority. Talking on a point, the governor said, spade work has to be initiated without any further delay to get the proposals documentised and approved and cleared from the respective forums. However, he pointed out, one point is very much clear that both demand for electricity and potential of its generation through solar system very much exist in abundance in FATA and this state of affair in itself provides sufficient ground to opt for this system.