Exclusive: Pakistan plans to quadruple domestic coal-fired power, move away from gas

[excalibur]

China, India, and now Pakistan dramatically increase the usage of coal. But we are supposed to be the problem of "climate change" as Biden and Democrats keep killing our energy sector for pie-in-the=sky solar and wind. BS. It's a return to serfdom is what they are after.

Pakistan plans to quadruple its domestic coal-fired capacity to reduce power generation costs and will not build new gas-fired plants in the coming years, its energy minister told Reuters on Monday, as it seeks to ease a crippling foreign-exchange crisis.

A shortage of natural gas, which accounts for over a third of the country's power output, plunged large areas into hours of darkness last year. A surge in global prices of liquefied natural gas (LNG) after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and an onerous economic crisis had made LNG unaffordable for Pakistan.

"LNG is no longer part of the long-term plan," Pakistan Energy Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan told Reuters, adding that the country plans to increase domestic coal-fired power capacity to 10 gigawatts (GW) in the medium-term, from 2.31 GW currently.

Pakistan's plan to switch to coal to provide its citizens reliable electricity underscores challenges in drafting effective decarbonisation strategies, at a time when some developing countries are struggling to keep lights on.

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Exclusive: Pakistan plans to quadruple domestic coal-fired power, move away from gas

Pakistan plans to quadruple its domestic coal-fired capacity to reduce power generation costs and will not build new gas-fired plants in the coming years, its energy minister told Reuters on Monday, as it seeks to ease a crippling foreign-exchange crisis.

www.reuters.com

 

[Jessica-stormlover]

I want to bring fusion online in the next 20 years...late last year we made it sustainable and it won't be long.

 

[Doc7505]

I want to bring fusion online in the next 20 years...late last year we made it sustainable and it won't be long.

Okay genius you go right ahead and do it. Will it be Thorium Fusion, or Nuclear fusion? Tell us.

 

[August West]

In other news, France will cover all large parking lots with solar panels. It`s a 1st tier country but Pakistan is not. They expect to get as much solar power as 10 nuke plants.

Why Not Cover Ugly Parking Lots With Solar Panels?

In France, a plan to cover swaths of asphalt with photovoltaics will bring renewable energy even closer to urban areas where it’s needed.

www.wired.com

 

[wamose]

This makes our climate change radicals look stupid as they constantly look for less fossil fuel usage to reduce pollution.

 

[sparky]

fat lotta good all the 'save the planet' sorts are here, when the rest of the world's killing it...... ~S~

 

[August West]

This makes our climate change radicals look stupid as they constantly look for less fossil fuel usage to reduce pollution.

You`re addicted to coal and we look stupid? My state has over 5,000 miles of dead streams and they still treat the acid mine discharge from mines that were mined out in the 1950s.

 

[sparky]

the acid mine discharge from mines

..... we all live downstream...~~S~

 

[excalibur]

In other news, France will cover all large parking lots with solar panels. It`s a 1st tier country but Pakistan is not. They expect to get as much solar power as 10 nuke plants.

Why Not Cover Ugly Parking Lots With Solar Panels?

In France, a plan to cover swaths of asphalt with photovoltaics will bring renewable energy even closer to urban areas where it’s needed.

www.wired.com

More Western delusion.

Ten nuke plants can produce nameplate capacity 24/7. Solar panels? Not.

 

[Independentthinker]

China, India, and now Pakistan dramatically increase the usage of coal. But we are supposed to be the problem of "climate change" as Biden and Democrats keep killing our energy sector for pie-in-the=sky solar and wind. BS. It's a return to serfdom is what they are after.

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Pakistan plans to quadruple its domestic coal-fired capacity to reduce power generation costs and will not build new gas-fired plants in the coming years, its energy minister told Reuters on Monday, as it seeks to ease a crippling foreign-exchange crisis.​

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A shortage of natural gas, which accounts for over a third of the country's power output, plunged large areas into hours of darkness last year. A surge in global prices of liquefied natural gas (LNG) after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and an onerous economic crisis had made LNG unaffordable for Pakistan.​

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"LNG is no longer part of the long-term plan," Pakistan Energy Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan told Reuters, adding that the country plans to increase domestic coal-fired power capacity to 10 gigawatts (GW) in the medium-term, from 2.31 GW currently.​

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Pakistan's plan to switch to coal to provide its citizens reliable electricity underscores challenges in drafting effective decarbonisation strategies, at a time when some developing countries are struggling to keep lights on.​

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Exclusive: Pakistan plans to quadruple domestic coal-fired power, move away from gas

Pakistan plans to quadruple its domestic coal-fired capacity to reduce power generation costs and will not build new gas-fired plants in the coming years, its energy minister told Reuters on Monday, as it seeks to ease a crippling foreign-exchange crisis.

www.reuters.com

Guess that means the rest of the world is just going to have to make up the difference. It's up to us in the US to go back to wearing animal skins, not having fire, heat, AC, and go back to traveling by foot so that the world can survive. And, we're going to have to eat bugs along with berries for meals because we can't raise animals for food because they fart too much. Any animals we do have will have to wear N95 masks and diapers in order to limit green house gases. Meanwhile, Pakistan, India, China, and the other high polluting countries will be living the good life.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

It’s OK. They’ll just have global warming over there.