All Answers: Re: [pakgrid] We need to seriously look at Concentrated Solar Power for Pakistan

Tuesday, 19 March 2013

Re: [pakgrid] We need to seriously look at Concentrated Solar Power for Pakistan

I fully agree with Dr Qasim, issue is commercialization. One of the way I have seen a person try to do this is by doing a contract with a bank, and leasing the equipment to the customer financed by bank. That way the burden of financing is taken off from the client and company but there is the issue of Riba.

Another way I see this happening is for people to actually finance a solar panel as a business investment and become private power supplier to an industrial unit requiring 100KVA of power and then agree on a rate of supplying power. This way the industrial unit will not be burdened and the financier can have good return by selling electricity. The biggest hurdle will be that both units (power supplier and industry) will be tied up for a long time.

Regards,

Ali Khawaja
--- On Mon, 3/18/13, Qasim Sheikh <qs358@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Qasim Sheikh <qs358@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [pakgrid] We need to seriously look at Concentrated Solar Power for Pakistan
To: "pakgrid@yahoogroups.com" <pakgrid@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, March 18, 2013, 3:57 AM

Issue is not so much university level research. This technology at small scale is well known. Issue is commercial scale use that is important, specially rate of ROI becomes a challenge, so it is more of a business and entrepreneurship challenge and less of a less of a technical challenge.

With Regards
Qasim
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From: Inspirex <inspirex@gmail.com>
To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: [pakgrid] We need to seriously look at Concentrated Solar Power for Pakistan

Hi Zia,

Ive studied these in significant details in the last few years and have been keen to set up a program with some universities to do this on an experimental level.

The electronics and other components in this are not too costly and i think we can build a proof of concept very easily.

Anyone from a university interested in working on these?

Best,

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:17 AM, ziaimran <zia.imran@gmail.com> wrote:

CSP (concentrated solar power) is the technology we need in Pakistan. Solar thermal can be largely manufactured in the country without having to import expensive fancy photo-voltic solar panels. This will save a lot of foreign exchange, create jobs and boost manufacturing sector. Anyone in the electricity producing 'Power Corridors' listening? Can we make the right choices?

We can use the space on top of our renowned canal system to both save water evaporation and also use the real estate to install solar trough based CSP systems. That would be very nice. And we have plenty of desert if we do this in south part of the country.

Here is the latest CSP plant that was inaugurated in UAE yesterday.

http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/business/18-Mar-2013/uae-opens-worlds-largest-csp-solar-power-plant

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- Inspirex