US to expand clean energy cooperation with Pakistan: Blome
KARACHI: Ambassador Donald Bloom said on Friday that the United States is committed to expanding its technical cooperation with Pakistan to promote clean energy and help the country transition to renewable resources.
Bloom said this during a visit to the Wind Corridor Thatta, Jhampir as part of the US-Pakistan Green Alliance framework aimed at further strengthening the bilateral partnership between our two countries.
Under the Framework, the United States is engaged with partners across Pakistan to support sustainable clean energy and water management in the country.
“I am incredibly pleased to be able to travel to Sindh province today and meet with our partners who support the US-Pakistan ‘Green Alliance’ framework,” said Ambassador Bloom.
“This visit is an opportunity to see and highlight US investment in the region, and how it is focused on helping Pakistan as it strengthens climate resilience, advances energy transition, and inclusive economic growth. Promotes growth.
In Jhampir, Ambassador Bloom visited a USAID-supported power grid station and the US International Development Finance Corporation-funded Hawa Energy Limited wind power project.
The plant contributes 50 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy to Pakistan’s national grid, enough to power more than 10,000 homes.
He also visited the Center for Advanced Studies in Water at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology – initially established through a $12 million cooperation agreement between Mehran University and USAID – where he met with American and Discussed partnerships between Pakistani universities that strengthen research in water and environment. Related fields
“The ‘Green Alliance’ framework is helping us jointly address climate, energy, water, and economic needs now and into the future,” Bloom said in the same statement.
During his visit to Karachi, Ambassador Bloom visited a UNICEF project supported by the US government, where he was able to see how a solar-powered reverse osmosis desalination plant installed in a community mosque is helping Afghan refugees. And bringing a positive change in the lives of Pakistanis. Members of the host community.
He observed mobile nutrition screening and heard how the project is helping children and pregnant and lactating mothers in the surrounding area, who do not have a local health clinic.
He also congratulated the recent graduates of the Vocational Training Institute for Women, where UNHCR, through US funding, supports skills training for Afghan refugees and women from the Pakistani host community. does.
Ambassador Bloom also visited the Makkale Cemetery, one of the largest historical cemeteries in the world. He visited the site with the Sindh Minister for Culture and a representative of the Heritage Foundation to see the results of a $260,000 Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) project to preserve and stabilize the 400-year-old tombs of Sultan Ibrahim and Amir Sultan. Muhammed, the two most prominent constructions of Mukli Hill.
Over the past 20 years, AFCP has provided $7.1 million to support 32 projects to protect, preserve and restore Pakistan’s outstanding cultural heritage.