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The prospective non-conventional alternate and renewable energy sources in Pakistan - A focus on biomass energy for power generation, transportation, and industrial fuel

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posted on 2024-08-06, 11:44 authored by Wajahat Ullah Khan Tareen, Zuha Anjum, Nabila Yasin, Leenah Siddiqui, Ifzana Farhat, Suheel Abdullah Malik, Saad MekhilefSaad Mekhilef, Mehdi SeyedmahmoudianMehdi Seyedmahmoudian, Ben Horan, Mohamed Darwish, Muhammad Aamir, Leong Wen Chek
Pakistan is experiencing an undersupply of electricity, causing load shedding several hours per day due to the adherence to conventional energy resources having quantitative and environmental limitations. Fossil fuels generate more than half of the country's total electricity, but they will ultimately run out due to their limited supply. Their combustion emits greenhouse gases, posing environmental threats. Since the world is tending toward efficient and sustainable alternative methods for harvesting energy from nature, Pakistan has also been investigating an elevated deployment of renewable energy projects. This paper presents a critical analysis of the present energy sector of Pakistan along with global scenarios. Pakistan relies on mainly thermal, hydro, and nuclear energy for power generation. National solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass resources have not been extensively explored and implemented. This paper provides an insight into the potential of these resources in Pakistan to generate electricity for the national grid on a large scale. It focuses on biomass energy, which can be harnessed from bagasse, poultry waste, and municipal waste for power production, and biomass-based fuel for industries and transportation. It concludes that biomass is the most sustainable, available, implementable, and environment-friendly resource that can be utilized to lessen the energy demand and supply gap in Pakistan.

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1996-1073

Journal title

Energies

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11

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9

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article no. 2431

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2431-

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MDPI AG

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Copyright © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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eng

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