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500,000 off-grid households in Sindh to be provided ‘solar home system’ in first phase

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah was on Friday informed that there were 2.6 million off-grid households in the province and the provincial government was going to provide 500,000 of them Solar Home Systems (SHS) under the World Bank-sponsored Sindh Solar Energy Project in the first phase.

A meeting, held at the CM House, decided to implement the PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s programme to provide free-of-cost electricity to off-grid consumers and to those using 50 to 100 units of electricity by implementing the solar energy solution.

The chief minister proposed that three solar parks, each one of 305 MW may be established to provide electricity to KE, Hesco and Sepco to provide onward to the on and off-grid household.