ISLAMABAD: Second International Hydropower conference will be held here on December 21 to discuss more opportunities to produce cheap and clean energy from hydro sector and foster renewable energy resources in mitigating climate change.

Energy Update in collaboration with Private Power Board (PPIB) and International Hydropower Association (IHA) will organise daylong conference to be participated by energy expert from within and outside country.

Chairman organising committee and President National Forum for Environment and Health (NFEH), Naeem Qureshi told that conference would discuss progress achieved in Pakistan and adjoining region in hydropower sector so far.

He said that recent climate catastrophe flooding in Pakistan was wake-up call for all us and stakeholders to find sustainable solutions for dams and safe drainages, store torrential monsoon rains for resourceful irrigation and showing high-level of responsibility in managing release of cross border water.

He said State Minister Energy Hashim Notezai, Minister Science and Technology Agha Hasan Baloch, Hasan Nasir Jamy, Federal Secretary, Water Resources, MD PPIB Shah Jahan Mirza, Chairman NEPRA Tauseef H. Farooqui, Ch. Arshad, Minister Energy and Water, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Dr. Munawar Iqbal, DG Hydro PPIB, Mohd Fauzi Bin Shafie, CEO, TNB Remaco Pakistan Pvt Ltd, Senior Advisor CSAIL NA Zuberi, Naeem Khan CEO PEDO, Dr. Tahir Masood, Managing Director, NESPAK, Imran Halim, Chief Engineer, PEDO, Khattar AbdulKhalek, Head of Business Development and Acting GM for Aerodyne KSA, Muhammad Asad Imran, Country Manager, DOLSAR Engineering Pakistan, Fahd Bin Zafar, MM Pakistan (MMP), Sohail Butt, former DMD, PSO and others would address.–Online

Published in The Daily National Courier, December, 20 2022

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