As recently published in Bloomberg’s website EAWC’s mandated Swiss Water Tech Research & Development Centre (SWATE) based in Neuchatel (Switzerland), has received Letters of Intent (LoIs) from the Punjabi State Government as well as from several textile and waste-management companies for the provision of innovative and efficient Waste to Energy (WtE) systems. Those LoIs are now on the verge of being concluded as contracts.
These negotiated agreements follow upon recent findings showing eminent shortages of energy, gas and water in Pakistan’s Punjab State. The urgent need for a quick, affordable and sustainable solution has therefore been highlighted and EAWC’s R&D office SWATE identified as the most suitable to respond in an efficient and effective way to the challenge being faced by the government of Pakistan.
Electricity shortages that over the years in the Pakistani State of Punjab have become ever more frequent and longer in their duration, have now been deemed to have reached crisis proportions.
Evidence of this was reported by the New York Times in their 27th May of 2013 issue, wherein shortages at the time were established to have lasted up to 10 hours a day in urban centers while in rural areas they were lasting up to 22 hours a day.
