KUT News director Emily Donahue is traveling through Pakistan with nine other reporters on a trip organized by the International Center for Journalists.
We met with officials at the Pakistan Planning Commission early today. It is the site of Pakistan’s first on-site solar power installation. It is funded by Japan.
This installation and another will produce power for the “B” block of government offices, with excess flowing into the grid. Pakistan has an extremely unreliable energy grid. Rolling power outages are common is Islamabad.