Pakistan eyes higher clean energy capacity

KARACHI: Pakistan is planning a wave of new wind and solar plants that will expand its clean energy capacity to about a fifth of its total.

The South Asian nation plans to increase its renewables by more than four times by adding as much as 7GW to bring its total to 8GW-9GW by 2025, said Nadeem Babar, head of Pakistan’s energy task force. The new energy policy that targets lifting the country’s total generation capacity by 40% to 42GW-43GW is expected to be approved within a month, he said.