Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi on Thursday approved the production of a waste-to-energy project for Lahore while chairing a meeting with a Norwegian firm (ENATE), which offers to generate 55 megawatts of electricity on a daily basis for Sundar industrial estate from 1,250 tons of solid waste.
A meeting was held under the leadership of the chief minister and it discussed the way to overcome energy problems. The participants decided to explore the option of generating energy from solid waste in Lahore.
he representative of the Norwegian company, Carl Fredrik, gave a briefing on the project and offered to generate 55 megawatts of electricity from 1.250 tons of solid waste a day. The Norwegian company will initially invest $250 million on the project.
The meeting was told that 5,000 tons of garbage was being collected daily, which could generate a lot of electricity.
The chief minister said the energy obtained from solid waste would be used in the industries in the Sunder Industrial Estate. He assured the Norwegian company that the government would fully support the project.
The CM welcomed the foreign investment and assured that no bureaucratic bottleneck or dillydallying would be tolerated in the implementation of the project.
MPA Sajid Ahmad Khan Bhatti, Mr Torbjoern Laudal Haugen, former principal secretary GM Sikandar, commissioner Lahore, secretary finance, secretary P&D, chairman LWMC, officials of the energy department and others attended the meeting.
