Alternative energy: More biogas plants installed in rural areas
“We can meet about 30% of the cooking requirements of rural masses from the biogas alone,” says official.
Completion of the project will help protection of forests, environment and bio-diversity, says official.. CREATIVE COMMONS
The Pakistan Council of Renewable Energy Technologies (PCRET) has installed more biogas plants in rural areas, under a project of development and promotion of biogas technology for meeting domestic fuel needs of rural areas and production of bio-fertiliser.
“We can meet about 30% of the cooking requirements of rural masses from this source of energy [biogas] alone,” said an official privy to the matter.
He said the completion of the project will help protection of forests, environment and bio-diversity, and will provide soot-free fuel to meet domestic energy needs, a cleaner atmosphere, protection from eye-cataracts and respiratory diseases and bio-fertiliser.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 17th, 2013.
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