Furnace oil 16 percent hydel 27 percent natural gas 12 percent lng 26 percent coal 9 percent renewable solar and wind 5 percent and nuclear 5 per cent are the principal sources.
Solar power in pakistan map.
Solar resource data sets.
To make the above maps the multiyear solar irradiance was calculated from the nsrdb.
Pakistan has achieved surplus power production and projects in the pipeline will be more than sufficient to meet future demand.
Provided gis data layers include long term yearly average of.
These derived data sets are provided below as geospatial rasters.
Pakistan has some of the highest values of insolation in the world citation needed with eight to nine hours of sunshine per day ideal climatic conditions for solar power generation.
However the country has been slow to adopt the technology.
Islamabad march 7 2017 the world bank in partnership with the alternative energy development board aedb today launched a series of new solar maps for pakistan in support of the efforts to increase the deployment of renewable energy in pakistan this will help in expanding access to sustainable and affordable sources of indigenous energy in the country.
To view and use these data sets you need appropriate geographic information system software.
This is a list of power stations in pakistan pakistan had a total installed power generation capacity of over 41 3 gw by december 2018.