IN POWER-SHORT PAKISTAN, SWITCH TO SOLAR POWER.




Utility company installers, fearing lost income, are trying to dissuade solar buyers, says head of renewable energy association.


Solar panel owned by resident in Pakistan
Mohammad Aslam wipes dust off solar panels he recently installed on the roof of his home in Larkana, in Pakistan’s Sindh province, June 28, 2017. Image: Thomson Reuters Foundation/Saleem Shaikh
Mohammad Aslam has finally found a way to give his family relief from extended power cuts. In February this year he installed a 300-watt solar power generating system on the roof of his house.
In Pakistan, power outages scheduled by the country’s strained public electric utilities frequently hit households, lasting as long as 10 hours a day in towns and cities and up to 16 hours in rural areas.
The situation is worst during the brutally hot summer months, when air-conditioners often overload the national grid.
Buying solar panels to create power at home might seem an obvious way to bridge the gap. But although the panels have been available since 2014 in Aslam’s town of Larkana, in the southern province of Sindh, the 35-year-old entrepreneur waited two years before finally installing one.
Cost wasn’t the problem. Instead, he said, he was put off by rumours that solar panels would actually make things worse.
SOURCE: www.eco-business.com

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