2 day-long International Conference and Expo on Solar and Wind Power to be held on March 15-16 at Marriott Hotel Karachi.
The 2nd International Conference and Expo on Solar and 5th Int’l Wind Energy Summit 2022, being organised by the Energy Update, in collaboration with Sindh Energy Department, Alternative Energy Development Board, Sustainable Development Policy Institute, NEPRA & World Wind Energy Association. It will also showcase the latest technology available in Pakistan and the rest of the world to ensure maximum utilization of solar power with the least investment.
CEO of Alternative Energy Development Board, Shah Jehan Mirza, will deliver the keynote address at the inaugural ceremony of the conference. Chairman of National Electric Power Regulatory Authority, Tauseef H Farooqui, Abu Bakar Madani, Secretary Energy Department, Government of Sindh, will be guest of honors.
The other prominent Speaker includes Usman Waheed, Country Manager, Sungrow Power, Syed Salman Mohiuddin, Country Manager, Goodwe, Irfan Ahmed, Director HESCO, Waseem Qureshi, CEO, Kilowatt Labs, Shaff Mehboob, CEO, Adaptive Technologies, Faaz Diwan, Director, Diwan International Pvt Ltd, Nick Bradford, Global Industry Director, Energy, Utilites & Resources, IFS (Partner of Kestral Digital), Dr. Hina Aslam, Research Fellow, and Head, Energy and China Study Centre, SDPI, Dr. Abid Qaiyum Suleri, Executive Director, SDPI, Saadia Qayyum, Energy Specialist, The World Bank Group, Syed Imran Shah – Head of Energy, FFC Energy, Imtiaz Ali Shah -CEO, Sindh Renewable Energy Company, Tanvir Afzal Mirza – Director Project, UEP, Saleem Shaikh – CEO, Sindh Transmission Dispatch Company (STDC), Fozan Waheed – Head of Sales, Vestas, Ahsan Zafar, Chief Executive Officer, Engro Energy Limited, Talha Amjad, Executive Director, Pakistan Environment Trust, Ali Majid, Sales Director, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq- MEA 1 Team-Member, Longi Solar, Hartmut Behrend, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Mohammad Ali – Director, JCM Power, Engr. Ahad Nazir, Head, Centre for Private Sector Engagement, SDPI, Imtiaz Ahmed, Chief Executive Officer, Power Information Technology Company, Ali Zain Banatwala, Team Lead, Renewable energies and energy efficiency (REEE) II, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit & others.
Naeem Qureshi, who heads the organising committee of the moot, said the conference was being organised with the goal to gather at one platform all the stakeholders related to solar power in the country.
Qureshi hoped that the 2-day conference would go a long way in adopting a consensus policy for the federal government, provinces, and private sector for maximum utilization of solar power as a mean to achieve the goal of generating 30 per cent of the national energy mix on the basis of renewable energy sources.
Sungrow Power is the main sponsor of the event while other sponsors include Goodwe, Diwan International Pvt Ltd, Kilowatt Labs, JS Bank, Kestral Digital, Mesol Solar, Sindh Transmission Dispatch Company, Beon Solar, Olive Pvt Ltd, Exide Batteries, EFU General Insurance Co, Orient Energy Systems and Adaptive Technologies.
