Pakistan issues tender for 600 MW of PV – pv magazine International

Pakistan’s Various Vitality Improvement Board (AEDB) has launched a young to deploy 600 MW of PV capability. It mentioned that the brand new photo voltaic tasks will probably be constructed within the districts of Kot Addu and Muzaffargargh, Punjab province.

The chosen builders are anticipated to assemble the crops on a construct, personal, and function switch (BOOT) foundation. They’ve till Might 8 to submit venture proposals. The deadline was initially set for April 17.

In accordance with the newest statistics from the Worldwide Renewable Vitality Company (IRENA), Pakistan can have 1,234 MW of put in PV capability by the tip of 2022. Final 12 months, the nation had newly put in 166 MW photo voltaic capability.

NEPRA, the nation’s vitality authority, lately granted 12 technology licenses, with a complete capability of 211.42 MW. 9 of these approvals got to photo voltaic tasks with a complete capability of 44.74 MW.

In Might, NEPRA launched the Aggressive Buying and selling Bilateral Contract Market (CTBCM), a brand new mannequin for Pakistan’s wholesale electrical energy market. The Central Energy Buying Company mentioned the mannequin would “introduce competitors within the electrical energy market and supply an enabling setting the place a number of sellers and consumers can commerce electrical energy.”