Within a month, the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) aims to finish the construction of the first solar park in Karachi.
Kidney Hill Park in the heart of Karachi is the location that the KMC has selected for the park’s construction.
One of the KMC’s most notable recent successes was the quick conversion of 62 acres of Kidney Hill Park from a waste dump site to an urban forest in just two years. Kidney Hill Park, which reaches a maximum height of 219 feet, is regarded as Karachi’s highest point. In the short duration, KMC used its own funds to plant 1,50,000 indigenous trees and sow saplings for greenery in hilly area.
The site of Kidney Hill Park was the best choice for the city’s first solar park, according to Karachi’s Administrator, Barrister Murtaza Wahab, who was speaking at the project’s ground-breaking ceremony. This is because the hilly green zone has become a symbol of the cause of environmental protection.
According to him, the private partners the KMC had hired for the project promised to finish installing the solar panels at the site within a month.
According to Barrister Wahab, Karachi’s K-Electric power company will purchase 100 kilowatts of renewable electricity produced by the solar park.
He claimed that the ground-breaking initiative will make it possible for Karachi’s municipal government to earn up to Rs.5 million each month.
He claimed that the KMC has enough land in Karachi to construct other parks of this nature, allowing it to reduce its monthly electricity payments to K-Electric rather than paying millions of rupees to keep the city’s lamp posts on.
He stated that building more of these solar parks would give the KMC another source of income.