Chief Executive of the German Solar Energy Society, Dr Uwe Hartmann called on the Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan, Muhammad Barjees Tahir here on Saturday. He briefed the Minister about various activities of the society being undertaken by it to promote new sustainable energy conversion techniques and energy-saving technologies as well as environmental and climate protections.
He said that the major aspect of Society's work is education and spreading information about renewable energies. Federal Minister said Pakistan has been facing acute shortage of electricity and it has hampered the economic development badly. The Federal Government is striving hard to overcome this energy crisis on one hand as well as trying to maintain a balanced energy mix to keep the average price of electricity per unit as low as possible on the other hand, he added.