Saturday, 23 April 2011

"Cheap" electricity from India?

Electricity from India


Published in The News on April 22, 2011

This refers to a news item about India offering to sell electricity to Pakistan. In the 1990s, Nawaz Sharif’s government offered electricity to India, which said it would buy it at 2 cents per unit, although our government was buying it for 6.50 cents per unit from independent power producers.

Pakistan should not pay more than 2 cents a unit for electricity from India, which is produced there for 1.50 cents per unit from coal-fired plants.

Shakir Lakhani

Karachi

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