Renewable energy: Taiwan firm to invest in solar technology

ISLAMABAD: The Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (Tevta) would train its in-service teachers and unemployed youth in the field of solar technology in collaboration with New Green Power Taiwan.Talking to a delegation of New Green Power Taiwan, Tevta Chairperson Irfan Qaiser Sheikh said Tevta had already trained 400 workers in solar panel installation and 268 in solar water-heating system at the Govt Staff Training College Gulberg, Lahore. He said Tevta had trained another batch of 50 in-service teachers in these courses of the solar sector. “Additionally, it has established 25 solar labs in its institutes across Punjab,” said a press release.Sheikh said the Taiwanese company was planning to invest in Pakistan in solar sector in collaboration with Tevta. The project would help boost the image of Tevta in Punjab.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 1^st, 2016.

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