Islamabad : The civic agency is giving serious thought to an ambitious proposal to shift all streetlights and its offices and buildings to solar energy which will not only improve energy saving but will also significantly reduce costs.
According to the details, the high officials of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) have evaluated the proposal in their recent meetings and now they are planning to move forward in this direction.The high-ups of the civic agency will also review the Project-Concept (PC-I), prepared some years ago, to install solar panels atop tubewells and waterworks in various parts of the capital to produce 4.5 megawatt of electricity. The draft of the PC-I showed that the electricity produced through the solar system can be used for operating the waterworks and tubewells for the next twenty-five years. Within the first four years, it will meet the…
CDA to shift streetlights, offices on solar energy soon
