Wind Turbines Should Be Manufactured In Pakistan
Air Commodore (Retd) Azfar A. Khan has written another post about renewable energy in Pakistan here at ATP. I have written about Wind energy projects in Pakistan. Azfar Khan presents views and evidence on how to make wind energy a local indigenous solution:
During one of my recent lectures on Wind Energy in one of the universities of the country, the same question was posed by a participant, “If we go for the wind energy option, we would be needing hundreds of wind turbines in order to make up for the shortfall of electricity. Why can’t we manufacture these turbines ourselves indigenously?” I replied, “Yes, we can, if there’s a will!” I further explained that we can’t expect the foreign manufacturers to provide these turbines to us as and when we need them due to the long lead time involved.
During my brief survey of the country’s existing manufacturing facilities, I got convinced that all the parts and components of the wind turbine could be easily manufactured indigenously.
