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July 15, 2021
Islamabad : Oliver Knight, senior energy specialist, the World Bank, said that the most optimum capacity expansion pathway for Pakistan is through increased expansion of solar and wind capacity as it will decrease the utilisation of existing generation facilities which are no longer competitive.
Mr Knight was speaking at a webinar on “Future directions for Variable Renewable Energy deployment in Pakistan A discussion on the findings of the World Bank’s VRE report” jointly organised by Sustainable Development Policy Institute and Pakistan Renewable Energy Coalition.
Mr Knight opined that achieving targets of 30% RE by 2030 would require some investments in transmission capacity of Balochistan.