KARACHI: Sindh Energy Minister Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh will inaugurate a daylong international conference on solar power as being the clean and abundantly available energy resource in the country on June 23, 2021, a statement said on Tuesday.
The international conference, being organised by the Energy Update, will also showcase the latest technology available in Pakistan and the rest of the world to ensure maximum utilisation of solar power with the least investment, it added.
Alternative Energy Development Board CEO Shah Jehan Mirza will deliver the keynote address at the inaugural ceremony.
National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) Chairman Tauseef H Farooqui will be another prominent speaker at the inaugural session, it said.
Punjab Energy Minister Dr Akhtar Malik will chair one of the sessions of the conference.
Naeem Qureshi, who heads the organising committee of the conference, said it was being organised with the goal to gather at one platform all the stakeholders related to solar power in the country.
He said these stakeholders would get the opportunity to thoroughly discuss issues hampering the growth of the solar energy sector in the country, it said.