Pakistan's renewable energy investments

Why is Pakistan not investing more in bio-fuels/cellulosic ethanol? We seem to have a good agricultural base to support it (just like India) and we can utilize both the corn and sugarcane feedstocks. This can also provide a nice impetus to our dormant agricultural biotechnology research institutions.
-Bilal

Pakistan Makes Goal of 650 MW Wind Energy by 2007
May 24, 2006

Karachi, Pakistan [Daily Times] Air Marshal Shahid Hamid (retd), Chairman of the Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB), said here on Saturday 13 leading investors had been given letters of commitment to install wind power turbines and as a result 650 megawatts of wind power would be injected into the national grid by the end of 2007. At a meeting with Acting President of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FPCCI) Sheikh Muhammad Aslam and members of the FPCCI here in the Federation House, he said that the mid-term development plan of the AEDB included development of wind and solar energy to meet at least 5% of the total installed capacity, that is, 9,700 MW by 2030.

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