Alternative Energy Board delegation in UK to discuss energy needs

LONDON, Feb 16 (APP): Pakistan energy officials are to seek technical co‑operation and investments from the UK for their energy starved country. A 15‑member delegation comprising Pakistan Alternative Energy Board and entrepreneurs in alternative sources of power has arrived in Britain on a four‑day visit to look into ways of enhancing power production through alternative methods for overcoming energy in Pakistan. The delegation headed by Arif Allauddin, Chief Executive of Alternative Energy Development Board will hold meetings with various departments and visit projects of alternative energy working successfully in UK. During the course of their stay, the delegation will also visit Wind Farm, in Glasgow and attend Business round table at Scottish Development International and New and Renewable Energy Centre and would also hold discussion with British Experts. Meanwhile, a recent report published here has said the global wind power capacity is set to double in next three years. The report by independent research authority Energy Watch Group identifies exponential growth in wind power capacity since early 1990s. With net capacity additions of almost 20,000 megawatts in 2007, the report suggests growth of wind power additions will continue and that it will be driven not just by costs for fossil fuels and nuclear cost overruns but by access to wind resources, by new grid regulations, by an emerging world market for wind turbines and components and ever cheaper and better wind technology. Wind power net capacity additions over the last ten years (1998 · 2007) have showed a mean growth rate of 30.4 percent per year, corresponding to a doubling of net additions every two and a half years. High worldwide growth rates for wind power will continue, and wind power will conquer a large part of the energy market in the next foreseeable future of between ten to 15 years, the report said.