Wind Energy Potential at Badin and Pasni Costal Line of Pakistan

Unfortunately, Pakistan is facing an acute energy crisis since the past decade due to the increasing population growth and is heavily dependent on imports of fossil fuels. The shortage of the electricity is 14-18 hours in rural areas and 8-10 hours in urban areas. This situation has been significantly affecting the residential, industrial and commercial sectors in the country. At this time, it is immense challenges for the government to keep the power supply provision continue in the future for the country. In this situation, it has been the increased research to explore renewable energy resources in the country to fulfill the deficit scenario in the state. The renewable energy sector has not penetrated in the energy mix, currently in the upcoming markets. This paper highlights the steps taken by the country in the past and is taking steps at the present time to get rid of from the existing energy crisis when most urban areas are suffering from power outages for 12 hours on regular basis. Until 2009, no single grid interconnected wind established, but now the circumstances are changing significantly and wind farms are contributing to the national grid is the reality now. The initiation of the three wind farms interconnection network and many others in the pipeline are going to be operational soon. The federal policy on wind energy system has recently changed. Surprisingly, the continuing schemes of the wind farm are getting slow. This paper reviews developments in the wind energy sector in the country and lists some suggestions that can contribute to improving the penetration of wind energy in the national energy sector.Article History: Received Dec 16th 2016; Received in revised form May 15th 2017; Accepted June 18th 2017; Available onlineHow to Cite This Article: Kaloi,G.S., Wang, J., Baloch, M.H and Tahir, S. (2017) Wind Energy Potential at Badin and Pasni Costal Line Pakistan. Int. Journal of Renewable Energy Development, 6(2), 103-110.https://doi.org/10.14710/ijred.6.2.103-11

PERFORMANCE OF SOME NEWLY DEVELOPED SUGARCANE GENOTYPES FOR SOME QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE TRAITS UNDER THATTA CONDITIONS

ABSTRACT Investigations were carried out at National Sugar Crops Research Institute (NSCRI), Thatta to assess the performance of different sugarcane genotypes under agro-climatic condition of Thatta during 2006-07. Twelve sugarcane genotypes developed from exotic fuzz (true seed) of USA origin along with one local check as standard variety Thatta-10 were evaluated for their cane yield, yield components and quality performance subsequently in 4 th cycle. The behavior of the genotypes with regard to cane yield, yield components and quality remained variable during the study. The data indicated that the genotypes HoTh-610, HoTh-607 and check variety Thatta-10 remained superior by producing maximum average cane yield of 112.66, 106.66 and 106.00 t ha -1 , respectively. While, the genotypes HoTh-640, HoTh-641 and HoTh-642 were ranked next to check variety on account of producing average cane yield of 103.0, 100.0 and 100.0 t ha -1 , respectively. Moreover, the genotypes HoTh-614, HoTh-612, HoTh-633 and HoTh-618 occupied intermediate position by producing average cane yield of 94.0, 93.00, 89.66 and 82.0 t ha -1 , respectively. While, in case of commercial cane sugar percentage, the data indicated that the genotypes HoTh-642 and HoTh-641were identified as high sugar containing on account of producing maximum CCS of 13.43% and 12.99%, respectively. Moreover, the genotypes HoTh-607, HoTh-606, HoTh-640, HoTh-610 and HoTh-618 also appeared to be the good sugar containing with CCS of 12. 72, 12.42, 12.40, 12.36 and 12.35%, respectively, against Thatta-10 (11.56% CCS). All the genotypes along with Thatta-10 were also less susceptible to borer complex infestation